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02 / 28
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
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02 / 29
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03 / 4
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
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03 / 5
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
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03 / 6
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.
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03 / 7
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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03 / 8
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03 / 11
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03 / 12
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Middle Eastern Film Series: Turtles Can Fly (2005, Iraq)
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 one of the first films shot in post Saddam Hussein Iraq, from the acclaimed director Bahman Gobadi.
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03 / 13
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
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03 / 14
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03 / 15
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03 / 16
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03 / 17
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03 / 18
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM
Spring 2008
Roger Owen and Sara Roy, Co-Chairs
Oil Crusades: America Through Arab Eyes
Abdulhay Yahya Zalloum, International Oil Consultant, Founder and CEO, The Zalloum Group
Co-Sponsored by the Middle Eastern Initiative, Kennedy School of Government
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:30 pm
Come celebrate the Persian New Year with traditional food, drink and cultural performances
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03 / 19
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Seminar on Modern Turkey
Center for Middle Easter Studies
Harvard University
Cemal Kafadar and Lenore G. Martin
Co-Chairs
Invite you to
"Meaning, Madness, and Political Selves in Modern Turkey"
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
What happens when two Palestinian couples decide to get married and find that Israel's new Law of Citizenship won't allow them to live together?
Join us in viewing and discussing Harvard Nieman Fellow Ayelet Bechar's film, Just Married, as part of the Spring 2008 CMES Director's Series.
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03 / 20
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Noah Feldman is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He specializes in constitutional studies, with particular emphasis on the relationship between law and religion, constitutional design, and the history of legal theory. He is the author of the forthcoming The Fall and Rise of the Islamic state (Princeton University Press, March 2008).
Discussant: Professor Roger Owen
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
SADIK AL-AZM
Visiting Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University;
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03 / 27
Start: 3:00 pm
Start: 03/27/2008 - 3:00pm
End: 03/28/2008 - 5:00pm
We are pleased to invite you to attend a conference entitled “The United States and the Middle East: What Comes Next After Iraq”. The conference will be held at the Cabot Intercultural Center at Tufts University, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA on Thursday, March 27 (starting at 3:00 pm) and all day on Friday, March 28, 2008.
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03 / 28
End: 5:00 pm
Start: 03/27/2008 - 3:00pm
End: 03/28/2008 - 5:00pm
We are pleased to invite you to attend a conference entitled “The United States and the Middle East: What Comes Next After Iraq”. The conference will be held at the Cabot Intercultural Center at Tufts University, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA on Thursday, March 27 (starting at 3:00 pm) and all day on Friday, March 28, 2008.
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03 / 29
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 4:30 pm
News headlines in January once more brought the Gaza Strip to the fore of international thought as governments and agencies expressed concern over the mounting humanitarian crisis stirring behind, and through, the walls surrounding the Palestinian coastal strip. How do these concerns relate to the lives of people there? What part does the Gaza Strip play in the discussions about final status issues of the Israel-Palestinian conflict? How does violence both from the Gaza Strip on Israel and from Israel on the Gaza Strip impact the life of people in both areas?
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