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

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

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.

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)

ASHER SUSSER

Director for External Affairs, Dayan Center for Middle East Studies, Tel Aviv University;

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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.

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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.