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Events
Wednesday February 6, 2008
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:30 pm

Part three of this five part series takes place on February 6th, 2008 and
is led by Dr. Jocelyne Cesari, Director, Islam in the West Program, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

This event
will take place at the Harvard Center for
Government and International Studies South Building [1730 Cambridge
Street] in
Cambridge, in Room 020 from 4:30 to 6:30 pm.

Thursday February 7, 2008
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

BESHARA DOUMANI
Associate Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley;
Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.

On

Palestine versus the Palestinians

Jointly sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and
the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Monday February 11, 2008
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

Joseph Massad is a professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History, Columbia University

Tuesday February 12, 2008
Wednesday February 13, 2008
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 2:00 pm

Dr. Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern
Studies, will be speaking about the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Examining
the Nature of Palestinian Decline as part of the CMES Director's
Lecture Series.

Start: 5:15 pm
End: 7:30 pm

Middle Eastern Film Series: Live and Become (2005, Israel)

Please join the Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Middle East Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government as our film series continues with a story of identity and young love.

Wednesday February 20, 2008
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:00 pm

The Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies,
the Middle East Initiative and the Dubai Initiative

invite you to the lecture

"Exploring the role of context in intergroup leadership
among women's groups in Saudi Arabia"

by

Dr. May Al-Dabbagh
Research Fellow, Dubai School of Government
and the Dubai Initiative, Harvard's Kennedy School

4:30 - 6:00 PM

Wednesday 20 February 2008
Room 102

Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:00 pm

Seminar on Modern Turkey
Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Cemal Kafadar and Lenore G. Martin, Co-Chairs

Invite you to our first Seminar of the 2008 Spring Semester

"The Conservative Form of Turkish Nationalism: Evolution of an Idea"

Umut Uzer, Ph.D. Adjunct
Assistant Professor at University of Maryland University
College and Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies,

Harvard University, Center for Government and International Studies

Thursday February 21, 2008
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm

Dr. Emad Shahin, Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of
Government at Harvard University, will be speaking as part of the
Spring 2008 CMES Director's Series. We look forward to his talk on The
Politics of Democratization in Egypt.

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

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

HUSAIN HAQQANI
Director, Center for International Relations, and Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University

Radicalism and Militancy in Pakistan-Afghanistan and their Impact on the Arab World