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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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05 / 4 Middle East Studies: 50 Years of Inquiry and Change; A Conference in Honor of Roger Owen Start: 3:00 pm Start: 05/04/2008 - 3:00pm End: 05/06/2008 - 1:00pm more info
05 / 5 Middle East Studies: 50 Years of Inquiry and Change; A Conference in Honor of Roger Owen (all day) Start: 05/04/2008 - 3:00pm End: 05/06/2008 - 1:00pm more info
05 / 6 Middle East Studies: 50 Years of Inquiry and Change; A Conference in Honor of Roger Owen End: 1:00 pm Start: 05/04/2008 - 3:00pm End: 05/06/2008 - 1:00pm more info CANCELED - Issues in the Political Economy of Business Enterprise in Egypt Start: 3:00 pm THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM Spring 2008 Roger Owen and Sara Roy, Co-Chairs Issues in the Political Economy of Business Enterprise in Egypt AbdelAziz EzzelArab, Associate Professor of Economics and Director, The Economic and Business History Research Centre, American University in Cairo more info Middle Eastern Film Series: Under the Moonlight (2001, Iran) Start: 6:00 pm End: 8:00 pm Middle Eastern Film Series: Under the Moonlight (2001, Iran) 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 that considers the problems faced by a young seminarian in Iran. more info
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05 / 8 Three events: Film screening and discussion of "Jellyfish" by World-renowned author and filmmaker Etgar Keret Start: 1:30 pm End: 9:00 pm CMES and Harvard Hillel will be hosting three special events on the 60th birthday of Israel, Yom Ha'atzmaut - THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2008 - with Israel's world-renowned author and filmmaker, Etgar Keret: 1:30 - 4:00 p.m.: Screening of the Cannes Film Festival award-winning film "Jellyfish", presented by Etgar Keret, and followed by a discussion with him. This will take place in the Ben-Zion Gold Dining Hall at Harvard Hillel. 5:30 p.m.: Dinner and informal conversation with Etgar Keret in Rabb Hall. 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.: Reading and discussion with Etgar Keret in Beren Hall. more info
05 / 9 From Rhubarb to Rubies: European Travels to Safavid Iran (1550–1700), European and Iranian Perspectives Start: 9:00 am End: 5:00 pm Travelling To and In Safavid Iran (1550-1700): European and Iranian Perspectives more info New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Water and Society in World Perspective Start: 9:00 am Start: 05/09/2008 - 9:00am End: 05/10/2008 - 8:00pm Water sustainability has become an urgent concern in the world today, arguably nowhere more so than in the Middle East but inother parts of the world as well. The goal of the conference is to bring together an inter-disciplinary group of scholars, at all stages of their careers, who are doing water-related research in these regionsand from historical as well as contemporary perspectives. more info
05 / 10 New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Water and Society in World Perspective End: 8:00 pm Start: 05/09/2008 - 9:00am End: 05/10/2008 - 8:00pm Water sustainability has become an urgent concern in the world today, arguably nowhere more so than in the Middle East but inother parts of the world as well. The goal of the conference is to bring together an inter-disciplinary group of scholars, at all stages of their careers, who are doing water-related research in these regionsand from historical as well as contemporary perspectives. more info