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04 / 3 CANCELED: Iraq, Its Neighbors, and the United States: Competition, Crisis, and the Reordering of Power Start: 4:00 pm End: 6:00 pm 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. more info From the Archive to the Public and Back: A Historiographical Journey through 20th Century Egypt Start: 4:00 pm End: 6:00 pm 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 more info
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04 / 9 Maryam's Final Word: History of the Waqf as a Family Charter, Dr. Beshara Doumani Start: 12:30 pm End: 2:00 pm Dr. Beshara Doumani, a visiting fellow at Radcliffe, will be speaking as part of the Spring 2008 Director's Series. more info Middle Eastern Film Series: Divine Intervention (2002, Palestine / Israel) Start: 6:00 pm End: 8:00 pm 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. more info
04 / 10 Leaderless Jihad Start: 4:00 pm End: 5:00 pm 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. more info Married to Another Man: Examining Options for Israeli- Palestinian Peace Start: 4:00 pm End: 6:00 pm 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 more info
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04 / 14 Muslim Grassroots in the West Discuss Democracy: A Panel Start: 4:00 pm End: 6:00 pm more info
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04 / 16 Qahwe, Baga'il wa Mufafin Start: 9:30 am End: 12:00 pm Still looking to meet and mingle with CMES students and faculty? Like free food? The Harvard GSAS Middle Eastern Cultural Association (HMECA) invites you to Qahwe, Baga'il wa Mufafin Join CMES students, faculty, and visitors for coffee, bagels, and muffins every Wednesday more info Egypt in Search of Political Community. In Theory., by Dr. Ellis Goldberg Start: 12:30 pm End: 2:00 pm Dr. Ellis, Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington, will be speaking on "Egypt in Search of Political Community. In Theory." as part of the Spring 2008 CMES Director's Series. more info From Greater Israel to Global Israel: The Jewish State's Last Chance for Democracy--and Peace Start: 4:00 pm End: 6:00 pm THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM Spring 2008 Roger Owen and Sara Roy, Co-Chairs From Greater Israel to Global Israel:The Jewish State's Last Chance for Democracy—and Peace Bernard Avishai, Contributing Editor, Harvard Business Review and author The Hebrew Republic (forthcoming Harcourt) more info
04 / 17 Israel as the State of the Jewish People and its Arab Minority Start: 4:00 pm End: 6:00 pm ASHER SUSSER Director for External Affairs, Dayan Center for Middle East Studies, Tel Aviv University; more info Contemporary Iraqi Film Start: 7:00 pm Start: 04/17/2008 - 7:00pm End: 04/19/2008 - 7:00pm http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eaU3Btqyt5w . (click to watch trailer) . . more info
04 / 18 Contemporary Iraqi Film (all day) Start: 04/17/2008 - 7:00pm End: 04/19/2008 - 7:00pm http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eaU3Btqyt5w . (click to watch trailer) . . more info HATIF: A REAL BEING OR A LITERARY DEVICE Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:00 pm Dr. Pourjavady is a leading scholar on Persian-Islamic mystical and philosophical manuscripts He will talk about the idea of "Hatif" in Persian literature and show how hatif was thought of as a real being in early Islamic literature and then gradually became simply a litrary device. more info
04 / 19 Contemporary Iraqi Film End: 7:00 pm Start: 04/17/2008 - 7:00pm End: 04/19/2008 - 7:00pm http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eaU3Btqyt5w . (click to watch trailer) . . more info
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04 / 21 The Prophet's Body: Issues of Representation Across the Disciplines Start: 4:30 pm End: 6:00 pm more info
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04 / 24 Sharia in Europe: Islamic Norms in Secular European States Start: 5:00 pm End: 7:00 pm Mathias Rohe holds the Chair for Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law/University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. Additionally, he has a secondary office as judge at the Court of Appeal of Nürnberg. His research focuses on the fields of modern Islamic law (including economic law), the legal status of Islam in Germany and Europe and German and international banking, credit and securities law. more info
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