Highlights and pictures from the second annual Nowruz event.

The Outreach Center is pleased to present this new education program.

Professor Asani’s lecture, titled "Teaching Islam in Context", was the second in a series of five “Islam in Context” lectures taking place over the 2007-08 academic year. 

On November 14th, The Outreach Centers of CMES and The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies held the first of five lectures in their "Islam in Context" Series. Following a brief synopsis of the discussion, click on the audio link to listen to Dr. Thomas Simons' lecture.

The Outreach Center, along with the Outreach Program of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, is announcng a new lecture series to take place over the 2007-08 academic year.

The Outreach Center, along with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, is announcing the first of several films as part of our Middle East Film Series. The series continues on Tuesday February 12th, 2008 with the film "Live and Become". Click here for more information and a complete listing of the fims to be shown.

The Outreach Center, in collaboration with Primary Source, is announcing a new Summer Institute for middle school teachers on topics concerning the contemporary Middle East.

The Outreach Center is proud to announce these new award-winning additions to our Resource Library!

On November 17 –18, The Outreach Center and the Middle East Outreach Council invited educators to a two-day conference on Learning about Islam and the Middle East through the Arts. The conference featured explorations of the visual, sound and literary arts of the classical and contemporary Middle East and Muslim societies in the belief that learning about these cultures through their artistic production opens up new avenues of understanding and appreciation.

This August, The Outreach Center coordinated, in partnership with Primary Source in Watertown and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, a week-long intensive educators’ institute on Unmuddling the Modern Middle East.