"Nebukadnezar and Saladin - The Political
Iconography of History in Saddam's Iraq and
Contemporary Syria"
Stefan Heidemann
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral FellowFriederich Schiller
Universit?tDepartment of Semitic Philology and
Islamic Studies
Jena, Germany

All events are on Mondays at 5:30
pm in MIT room 3-133
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=3-133&mapsearch=go.
All events are free and open to the public.
For further information please contact us by

"Antiquarianism and Connoisseurship in 19th
century Cairo: Some Reconsiderations"
Mercedes Volait
Centre National de Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France

All events are on Mondays at 5:30
pm in MIT room 3-133
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=3-133&mapsearch=go.
All events are free and open to the public.
For further information please contact us by
phone at 617 253 1400 or email at

Still looking to meet and mingle with CMES students and faculty? Like free food?

The Harvard GSAS Middle Eastern Cultural Association (HMECA) invites you to

Qahwe, Baga'il wa Mufafin

Join CMES students, faculty, and visitors for coffee, bagels, and muffins every Wednesday

The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Presents A Roundtable Discussion
http://farescenter.tufts.edu
For more information
contact: Omar Dauhajre @ 617-627-6560

Halil Berktay Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 12:30 pm Fares Center Conference Room Mugar 129
"Three Tales of Horror: The Demons and Inner Hatreds of Early Turkish Nationalism"

"Strategies of Democracy Promotion in U.S. Foreign Policy" 

A brown bag seminar with Jonathan Monten Research Fellow International Security Program

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

Presents

KAYHAN BARZEGAR
Assistant Professor of International Relations, Science and Research Campus,
Islamic Azad University, Tehran; and Research Fellow, Project on Managing
the Atom/International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, Harvard University

On

Iran's Foreign Policy in the Persian Gulf Region

Thursday, November 29, 2007

"40 Years Since 1967, 60 Years Since 1948: Palestine, Israel, USA"
Thursday November 29, 2007
4-6 pm
Austin North, Harvard Law School
_____________________________
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics, MIT
"Barriers to Settlement: Background and Prospects"

Beshara Doumani, Associate Professor of History, UC Berkeley and Fellow at
the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
"Palestine versus the Palestinians?"

The Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies invites
you to a book launch and reception for the Encyclopedia of Islam in the
United States, on

Thursday November 29th from 5-7 PM at 38 Kirkland
Street, Cambridge, MA

The Islam in the West Program is pleased to announce the publication of its groundbreaking Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States. To celebrate, we invite you to attend a book launch and presentation with CMES Director Steven Caton and Islam in the West Director and encyclopedia editor Jocelyne Cesari. This is a joint event of the CMES Director's Seminar Series and the Islam in the West's Lecture Series.

The launch will be held on Thursday, November 29, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm in the Reception Lounge of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Sohbet-i Osmani

presents

Khaled El-Rouayheb,
Assistant Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, NELC

on

"The Myth of the 'Triumph of Fanaticism' in the Seventeenth Century
Ottoman Empire"

HARVARD
OTTOMAN AND TURKISH STUDIES PROGRAM
proudly presents

TURKISH FILMS
with English Subtitles

November 29, 6:15 pm
Boylston 110, Fong Auditorium

Takva / Takva: A Man's Fear of God
2006. Screenplay: Onder Cakar; Director: Ozer Kiziltan

If you haven't already heared...

You are invited to the Harvard Middle Eastern Cultural Association's Fall Party!

Join students, staff, and faculty at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies for middle eastern food, music, and dancing( and not so Middle-eastern refreshments).

What: Middle Eastern Party

When:Thursday, November 29 (9PM-12AM)

Where: CMES, 38 Kirkland Street

All are welcome

see you there!

Fainsod Room, Littauer 324
Afshin Molavi is a Fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of
"Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys Across Iran" (Norton, 2002), which was
nominated for the Thomas Cook literary travel book of the year and described
by Foreign Affairs as "a brilliant tableau of today's Iran." A former
Dubai-based correspondent for the Reuters news agency and a regular
contributor to The Washington Post from Iran, Mr. Molavi has covered the
Middle East and Washington for a wide range of international publications.

We are delighted to invite you to the inaugural Harvard Middle East / North Africa Weekend, November 30 –December 1, 2007.

We very much hope that you will be able to travel to Harvard for this very exciting weekend. 

We are delighted to invite you to the inaugural Harvard Middle East / North Africa Weekend, November 30 –December 1, 2007.

We very much hope that you will be able to travel to Harvard for this very exciting weekend. 

Reflections on the Annapolis Peace Conference

 The Annapolis peace conference is being held to find a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the ultimate goal of creating a two-state solution. The conference will be held in Annapolis, Maryland during the last week of November 2007. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will host the meeting and both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are expected to attend.

PUBLISHING YOUR FIRST BOOK

A Discussion with History Editors

Kathleen McDermott (Harvard University Press)and Vanessa Mobley (Penguin Press)

You are cordially invited to attend The World Film Premiere of:

An Islamic Conscience: The Aga Khan and the Ismailis

"What's Troubling about Zionism: An African-American Perspective"

A talk by J. Lorand Matory, Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Ammar Al-Dwaik, Former Chief Electoral Officer,
Palestinian Central Elections Commission, and PhD Candidate, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

MOROCCO FORUM

Susan Gilson Miller, Chair

Dr. Lamia Zaki

Bassam Haddad, Director, Middle East Studies Program, George Mason University, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University, and Documentary Filmmaker, About Baghdad

Seminar on Modern Turkey
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University

Cemal Kafadar and Lenore G. Martin Co-Chairs

Invite you to a lecture on
"Disarming, Demobilizing and Reintegrating the PKK"

David L Phillips
Project Director, National Committee on American Foreign Policy
and
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia
University

*December 5, 2007 4:30-6 pm

Center for Government and International Studies

The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Tufts University
Invites you to attend:

Fares Center Lecture Series
Fall 2007

Barnett R. Rubin
"Why Are We in Afghanistan?"
Director of Studies and Senior Fellow,
Center on International Cooperation,
New York University

Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369

Vali Nasr is a Senior Fellow with The Dubai Initiative, Adjunct Sr. Fellow
for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; and Professor of
International Politics & Assoc. Director, Fares Center for Eastern
Mediterranean Studies, Fletcher School, Tufts University. He has worked
extensively on political and social developments in the Muslim world with a
focus on the relation on religion to politics, social change, and

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies

presents a lecture

by

Haggay Etkes

Legalizing Extortion: An Economic Analysis of State Regulated
'Protection Payments' Made to Tribes in Ottoman Gaza (1519-1582)

THE CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
38 Kirkland Street, Room 208

An abstract of his thesis:
 
Bribing violent groups is a common phenomenon in contemporary and
historical economies. Usually it is difficult to study this phenomenon

 Listen to this lecture here: Luis Cristillo

The Male Veil: Gay Life in the Middle East
When: Thurs., Dec. 6, 5:30-7pm
Where: Room 102, Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), 38 Kirkland St.

Mr. Brian Whitaker, editor of the Guardian (UK) on Middle East
affairs, will discuss his recent book "Unspeakable Love: Gay and
Lesbian Life in the Middle East." This book is unique for its focus on
contemporary gay and lesbian Middle Eastern lives. Furthermore, balanced
approach--focusing on repression as well as pockets of reform and

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard and The Alliance for Justice in the Middle East (AJME) present a film screening
of Arabs and Terrorism.
Director Bassam Haddad will attend and lead a Q&A session following the film

"The result is a documentary that dares to journey into waters seldom treaded byother filmmakers, by traveling right to the core of the ideological debate that lies behind the war on terror and investigating what the Arab people actually
think, believe and desire -- independent of media bias."

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard and The Alliance for Justice in the Middle East (AJME) present a film screening
of Arabs and Terrorism.
Director Bassam Haddad will attend and lead a Q&A session following the film

"The result is a documentary that dares to journey into waters seldom
treaded byother filmmakers, by traveling right to the core of the
ideological debate that lies behind the war on terror and investigating
what the Arab people actually
think, believe and desire -- independent of media bias."

Come to RUMI Night

Live classical Persian music and poetry readings

8-10pm Thursday, December 6
Winthrop Owens Room (G-entryway)
 Refreshments provided

Please see the attached flyer for more info.

Harvard University
December 7th and 8th, 2007
Sponsored by Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Dr. Steve Caton) & Committee on Degrees in Women, Gender, and Sexuality (Dr. Brad Epps).

EVENT CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC. Please contact Jaredmccormick@gmail.com with questions.

Harvard University
December 7th and 8th, 2007
Sponsored by Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Dr. Steve Caton) & Committee on Degrees in Women, Gender, and Sexuality (Dr. Brad Epps).

EVENT CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC. Please contact Jaredmccormick@gmail.com with questions.