The Middle East Forum, the Middle East Initiative and the Outreach Center
invite you to

"Primary Sources of Hezbollah: Translations of the Statements of Hassan Nasrallah"
a public lecture and discussion with

Ellen Khouri
Ellen Khouri is, most recently, the translator of writings and statements of Hassan Nasrallah for the book, Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah (Verso, Aug. 2007)

Room 102
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies
38 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA.

FRONTLINE will air our new program "Showdown with Iran." this Tuesday, Oct. 23 on PBS.

Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369
A Seminar with Rami Khouri, Senior Research Fellow for the Dubai Initiative,
Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International
Affairs at the American University of Beirut, Editor-at-Large for the
Beirut-based Daily Star.
Lunch will be served. RSVP required.

Martin Kramer will lecture on the topic "Which Middle East Conflict?" as part of the CMES Director's Series.
Lunch will be served following the event.

Gil Anidjar will lecture on the topic 'The Semitic Question' as part of the CMES Director's Series.
"Anidjar succeeds in shifting our understanding of Christianity's relationship to modernity, to power, to Jews and Arabs, and to Judaism and Islam."
Mitchell B. Hart, University of Florida
"Anidjar is a master of Derridean deconstruction, a provocative analyst of the role of Western Christianity in the formation of contemporary hostilities."
Talal Asad, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Lunch will be served following the lecture

Speaker: Prof. John Dugard on "Palestine, Human Rights and International
Law"

Professor John Dugard is Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation
in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to the UN Human Rights Council. He
is Professor Emeritus at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, and
Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Second Floor, Refreshments will be
served.

Co-sponsored by the University Committee on Human Rights

Dr. Richard E. Hennessey, the Director of Merrimack College's Islamic and Middle Eastern
Studies Program, is pleased to announce that Professor Houchang Chehabi of Boston University
will be speaking at the college at 7:00 pm, Thursday, October 25 in the college's Cascia Hall.
The subject of his presentation will be the role played by Iran in Lebanon.

Professor Chehabi is a specialist in International Law and in Middle Eastern Politics and
Cultural History and has a particular expertise in Iran and Lebanon. With a License from

Talk in Arabic
Arabic Program at Harvard presents:
Sinan Antoon, Iraqi poet, novelist and translator.
Assistant Professor in Arabic Culture at New York University
“Writing Baghdad from Exile”
Friday, October 26, 2007, 12-1 pm
Emerson Hall, Room 101

Shaista Aziz, Press Officer, Doctors for Iraq
Dr. Evan Lyon, Partners In Health

Pizza will be served.
Kresge 110 (next to the cafeteria), Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave.

featuring,
Mehmet SANLIKOL, vocals / Beth Bahia COHEN, violin / Eylem BASALDI, violin /
Onur DILISEN, violin / Boujeema RAZGUI, nay / Terry LEMANIS, electric saz /
Cory CALI, electric guitar / Walid ZAIRI, electric bass / Cem MUTLU,
percussion / Michael DAVIS, percussion
Classics of a controversial musical style
"Arabesk", for forty years the dominant popular music style in Turkey, has
continued to absorb into it many strands of the Arabic and Turkish musical
traditions, combining it with contemporary social themes and commercial

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY WING
MONDAY SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTS
"A Year into the Lebanon2 War: NGO-ing Mizrahi-Arab Paradoxes, and a One State Vision for Palestine/Israel"
A TALK BY Smadar Lavie
Hubert H. Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Studies, Macalester College

The GSAS Harvard Middle Eastern Cultural Association invites you to its first
general meeting on Monday, October 29 at 5:30 PM at the Center for Middle East
Studies.

Join us as we discuss our plans for the coming semester and share ideas for our
organization! We welcome returning members, new members, and all levels of
interest!

Our plans for the coming year include Middle East theme parties, an Iraqi film
festival, and Arabic/Turkish/Persian/Hebrew poetry readings.

We look forward to seeing/meeting you!

M.I.T.Emile Bustani Middle East SeminarFall 2007PresentsDR. AUGUSTUS RICHARD NORTONProfessor of Anthropology and International RelationsBoston University"LEBANON'S POLITICAL GRIDLOCK" Tuesday, October 30, 20074:30–6:30 p.m.E51-095 70 Memorial DriveCambridge

ISLAM IN THE WEST
GRADUATE RESEARCH WORKSHOP

We are pleased to invite all graduate students as well as young researchers
from all departments and schools of Harvard to attend the Islam in the West
Graduate Student Research Workshop.

The seminar provides a forum for graduate students who are interested in
topics related to Islam and Muslim communities in North America and Europe to:

MIDDLE EAST SEMINAR
Lenore G. Martin, Sara Roy & Herbert C. Kelman, Co-Chairs
Jointly sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

AUGUSTUS RICHARD NORTON
Professor, International Relations and Anthropology, Boston University
RAMI G. KHOURI
Editor-at-large, The Daily Star; Director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut.

HARVARD
OTTOMAN AND TURKISH STUDIES
PROGRAM
proudly presents

TURKISH FILMS
with English Subtitles

November 1, 5:30 pm
Boylston 110, Fong Auditorium

Iki Gen Kaz / 2 Girls
2005. Screenplay & Director: Kutlug Ataman
(based on the novel by Perihan Magden)

Come see a new documentary with a discussion and Q & A with the director
and Dr. Olga Davidson of the ILEX Foundation.

Iran: Seven Faces of a Civilization

Thursday, November 1 at 7pm
Room 250, Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University
Directions:
http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F6&quadrant=C&series=M

The Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University and The
Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University are proud to
present The Underground Iranian Rock Band Kiosk
Panel Discussion and Concert
November 2-3, 2007

A panel discussion on Art, Politics, Culture, and the Underground Music
Scene in Iran with Arash Sobhani, lead singer and lyricist of “Kiosk,”
and Babak Khiavchi, one of the most
prominent underground music producers and “Kiosk” band member.
Moderated by Dr. Naghmeh Sohrabi, Crown Center for Middle East Studies,
Brandeis University.
This event is free and open to the public.
Please be advised that space is limited.

ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL HISTORY WORKSHOP
presents

REVELATION IN THE PROPHET'S SLEEP

a lecture by
Alexander Key
PhD student at NELC, Harvard University
Friday 2 November, 2007
3:00 pm
Room 201, Semitic Museum

Everyone is welcome.

The Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University and The
Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University are proud to
present The Underground Iranian Rock Band Kiosk
Panel Discussion and Concert
November 2-3, 2007

All members of the Harvard community are cordially invited to attend the
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program's first annual conference
entitled, "Interpreting the Islamic Tradition in the Contemporary World."
Events will be held on Saturday, November 3 and Sunday, November 4. The agenda for the conference events is below. The conference is free, including the lunch reception on November 3 and the Gamelan performance on November 4. The events will take place on the first
floor of the Barker Center both days.

“Kiosk” in concert for the first time on the East Coast! Kiosk is a Persian blues/rock/jazz band established by a group of
friends some years ago in a basement in Isfahan and Tehran.

All members of the Harvard community are cordially invited to attend the
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program's first annual conference
entitled, "Interpreting the Islamic Tradition in the Contemporary World."
Events will be held on Saturday, November 3 and Sunday, November 4. The agenda for the conference events is below. The conference is free, including the lunch reception on November 3 and the Gamelan performance on November 4. The events will take place on the first
floor of the Barker Center both days.

The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies Cabot
Intercultural Center Tufts University160 Packard Avenue Medford,Massachusetts 02155

http://farescenter.tufts.edu
For more information contact: Omar Dauhajre @
617-627-6560

Monday, November 5, 2007 7:00 - 8:30 pm

Fares Center Conference room(Mugar 129)
Fares Center roundtables

The Harvard College Human Rights Advocates presents

A Hummus and Human Rights Event
Turkey and Northern Iraq:

What happens to human rights in a frenzy of nationalism?

A presentation by Halil Berktay, a professor of Turkish History, on the
impact of the current violence on the Turkish-Iraqi border on human
rights in Turkey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halil_Berktay

"What makes a Kurd or a Sunni or a Shia have something in common is a national library," he said. "It is where the national identity of a country begins."
--Dr. Saad Eskander

Saad Eskander, Director General of the Iraq National Library and Archive, will speak on the topic 'Iraq National Archives: Inherited Problems and Present Challenges'.

Lunch to be served following the lecture.

This event will be rescheduled during spring semester.  

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Seminar on Modern Turkey
Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Cemal Kafadar and Lenore G. Martin
Co-Chairs

Invite you to a lecture on
"Turkey, the US, Iraq and the Kurds"

Ilnur Cevik
Chief Columnist, The New Anatolian

The Outreach
Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the
Middle East
Initiative of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University

are proud to sponsor

MIDDLE EAST FILM SCREENING
Fall 2007

Wednesday 7 November, 6:15 – 8:30 PM (pizza/soda at 6:00 PM), Starr Auditorium,

Kennedy School of Government

November 8, 2007
John F. Kennedy School of Government

We cordially invite you to the inaugural conference
between the Dubai Initiative, Belfer Center for Science
and International Affairs and the Dubai School of Government

A brown bag seminar with Kajsa Ji Noe Oest
Research Fellow, International Security Program

The ISLAMIC LEGAL
STUDIES PROGRAM,
Harvard Law School,
presents

The Abd al-Razzaq al-Sanhuri Lecture Series on
Legal Interpretation in the Muslim World

Second Lecture by

Prof. Hossein Modarressi
Bayard Dodge Professor of Near East Studies &
Professor of Islamic Law, Princeton University;
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Visiting Professor of Law (HLS)

on

"Qur'an as a Legal Document:

Tradition vs. Modernism"

Friends and colleagues,

Location: CGIS S250, CGIS South Building Second Level

1730 Cambridge Street

Olivier Roy is a professor at l'École des hautes études

en sciences sociales in Paris, and a research director

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies &
The Arabic Language Program at Harvard

present an informational discussion:

Summer and Semester Study in Arabic:
United States and Study Abroad Programs

Coffee and cookies will be served!

consult link:  www.wm.edu/aata/summer.php

Seyhan Erozcelik, Lale Muldur and Guven Turan, three of the most important
Turkish poets of the 21st Century, will be reading and discussing their poetry
at Yale University on November 12, 2007, 3:00-5:00 PM.

Yale University
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211
320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511

We will be very happy to see you among us. More information
about the event can be found at the Turkish at Yale website:

The Harvard College Human Rights Advocates presents
Part 2 of the Hummus and Human Rights Event

Turkey and Northern Iraq Part 2:
 
 
by Halil Berktay

A continuation of the presentation given last week by Halil Berktay,
a visiting professor of Turkish history at Harvard, on the impact
of  the current violence on the Turkish Iraqi border on human rights
in Turkey. This event is happening because of the high demand last time
for the continuation of the discussion, since the issues being

The Moroccan Studies Program

Susan Gilson Miller, Chair

presents

H.E. Aziz Mekouar

Ambassador of Morocco to the United States

 
Morocco: Political Realities And Economic Opportunities

The Moroccan Studies Program Susan Gilson Miller, Chair H.E. Aziz Mekouar

This seminar series examines how Islam is represented in different
geographic locations. The practice of Islam, like any religion, is
influenced by the society in which it exists.  While the study of
Islam is customarily confined to the Middle East and North Africa, an
examination of communities outside of these historically "Muslim" areas
sheds new light on how Muslims practice and understand the faith of
Islam in a globalized world. Through the unique talents and dedicated
research of a range of scholars, the series offers a rare opportunity

Sohbet-i Osmani / Conversations on Ottoman History

presents

"Housing in Damascus: Extra-muros
during the 17th century as shown by the court registers of the city"

Dr. Abdal-Razzaq Moaz,
Visiting Fellow at the Aga Khan Program

4:30 on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
CGIS N-262

The Center for Government and International Studies
Knafel Building
1737 Cambridge Street

The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean StudiesTufts UniversityInvites you to attend: Fares Center Lecture SeriesFall 2007 John Voll"Religion, Pluralism, and Terrorism: 21st Century Dilemmas"Professor of Islamic History,Georgetown University  5:30 pm - Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th FloorOpen to the Public

ANN CLWYD
British MP; special envoy to the prime minister on human rights in Iraq.
Human Rights in Iraq: Past, Present and Future

Middle East Seminar
 Lenore G. Martin, Sara Roy, and Herbert C. Kelman, Co-chairs

ANN CLWYD
British MP; Special Envoy to the Prime Minister on Human Rights in Iraq