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
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
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
Monday February 25, 2008
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:30 pm
M.I.T.
Department of Economics
and
Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar
Present
DR. YOUSSEF BOUTROS-GHALI, PhD '80
Department of Economics
MINISTER OF FINANCE OF EGYPT
“BUILDING A SMART ECONOMY:
THE EGYPTIAN EXPERIENCE”
Monday, February 25, 2008
Wednesday February 27, 2008
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 2:00 pm
As part of the CMES Director's Series, Dr. Andrea Rugh will speak on the topic of 'The Revival of Tribalism in the Gulf: What are the Implications?'
Thursday February 28, 2008
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Riva Kastoryano is a senior research fellow at
the CNRS and teaches at the Institute for Political
Sciences (Sciences-Po--Paris). Her current work
explores the meaning of community in relation to
states, territory, and space. She is particularly
interested in how the transnational uses of
religion and ethnicity for political purposes in
Europe and other democratic societies give rise to
a "transnational nationalism," a new form of
nationalism beyond state boundaries as well as a
new expression of belonging and political
engagement. Her books include Negotiating
Tuesday March 4, 2008
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Wednesday March 5, 2008
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl is Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. Khaled Abou El Fadl is one of the leading authorities in Islamic law in the United States and Europe. He works with various human rights organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and the Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights.
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:30 pm
Part four of this five part series takes place on March 5th, 2008 and
is led by Dr. Jacob Olupona, Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard Divinity School.
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.
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:30 pm
Islam in Context Series
Light refreshments will be served.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Seminar on Modern Turkey
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
Cemal Kafadar and Lenore G. Martin co-chairs
Invite you to
The New Draft Constitution of Turkey
Mir Dengir Mehmet Firat, Deputy Chairman of the AK Party
Cuneyt Yuksel, Member of Turkish Parliament
Noah Feldman, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
March 5, 2008 7PM
Langdell South, Harvard Law School
Open to the public
Thursday March 6, 2008
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
An event sponsored jointly by the Middle East Forum and the WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar
THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM
Spring 2008
Roger Owen and Sara Roy, Co-Chairs
WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar
Herbert C. Kelman, Lenore G. Martin, and Sara Roy, Co-Chairs
The Crisis of the Nation-State: Lebanon, Israel, Palestine
by
Nubar Hovsepian
Associate Professor of Political Science, Chapman University
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Bio: Jennifer Selby is currently a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow with the Islam in the West program at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. She completed her PhD in 2007 (Religious Studies, McMaster University, Canada) examining secularism and gender politics in France.
View Jennifer Selby's PowerPoint presentation.
Friday March 7, 2008
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Speaker: Marietje Schaake. Marietje is an independent advisor on diversity, integration and Islam in the West. She is the 2007-2008 Residential Fellow at Netherlands Atlantic Association where she writes her forthcoming book.
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