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« Thursday November 29, 2007 »
Thu
Start: 12:15 pm
End: 2:00 pm

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

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

Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

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

Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

"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?"

Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm

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.

Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm

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

Start: 5:15 pm

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"

Start: 6:15 pm

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

Start: 9:00 pm

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!