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

Come celebrate the Persian New Year with traditional food, drink and cultural performances

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"

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.

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

SADIK AL-AZM

Visiting Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University;

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.

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.

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?

Zainah
Anwar is the recently retired Executive Director of Sisters in Islam.
It is widely regarded as one of the most successful women’s advocacy
groups in the Islamic world. A grassroots Malaysian organization formed
in 1988, it promotes women’s rights and challenges discrimination
against women. They run a legal clinic, legal literary programs, public
awareness programs, and perform research in law reform. She is

Sohbet-i Osmaniye presents

a conversation with

Michael Winter
Professor Emeritus of the history of the Middle East,
Tel Aviv University,
and Visiting Scholar at CMES

"Kadis in Damascus under the Mamluks and
the Ottomans: an outline for a comparative study"

Wednesday, April 2, 4:30-6

Dr. John Shoeberlein, Lecturer, Departments of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Anthropology.

This is the last of the five part series on Islam-in-Context. Register by emailing cmesoc@fas.harvard.edu

SCOTT LASENSKY

Acting Vice President, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, United States Institute of Peace

Iraq, Its Neighbors, and the United States: Competition, Crisis, and the Reordering of Power

SEMINAR CANCELED. TO BE RESECHEDULED.

CMES Middle East Forum presents... 

Dr. Yoav Di-Capua, Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas,
Austin.

From the Archive to the Public and Back: A
Historiographical Journey through 20th Century Egypt

Time: 4pm–6pm

Location: CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, room 102

Dr. Beshara Doumani, a visiting fellow at Radcliffe, will be speaking as part of the Spring 2008 Director's Series.

Middle Eastern Film Series: Divine Intervention (2002, Palestine / 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 polticial realities and young love.

Marc Sageman, a forensic psychiatrist, is a government counterterrorism
consultant. He is a former foreign
service officer who was based in Islamabad from
1987 to 1989, where he worked closely with Afghanistan’s mujahedin. He is the author of Understanding Terror
Networks and Leaderless Jihad.

THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM

Spring 2008

Roger Owen and Sara Roy, Co-Chairs

Married to Another Man: Examining Options for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Ghada Karmi, Research Fellow and Lecturer, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter