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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Travelling To and In Safavid Iran (1550-1700): European and Iranian Perspectives

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.