Harvard CMES

4/9: Stacey Philbrick Yadav on "Teaching to Entrench: Education, Fragmentation, and Yemen’s Next Decade" 4:30pm, CGIS Knafel 262 cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/teaching…

#Employment The Persian Studies Program at Georgetown University invites applications for a three-year, full-time, non-tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Teaching Professor to begin August 2026. mesana.org/resources-and-…

3/31: Altea Pericoli on her new book "Islamic Aid and Gulf States in Contemporary Crises" 4:30pm, CMES, Rm 102 cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/book-tal…

3/30: US Karagoz Puppet Theatre Company presents "The Other Side of Hollywood: A 1,000 Year Old Epic Based on the Book of Dede Korkut" 5:30pm, CMES 102 cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/other-si…

3/24: Aygün Uzunöz on "The First Poetic Sīrah in the Context of the Relationship Between Literature and History: Muhammad Wali’s Sīrat al-Nabī" 4:30pm, CMES Rm 102 cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/first-po…

3/26: Dov Waxman (UCLA) on "Deeper Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel Today" 4:30pm, CGIS Knafel 262 cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/deeper-t…

3/24: Febe Armenios (@Middlebury) on her new book "Satellite Ministries: The Rise of Christian Television in the Middle East" 12pm, CMES Rm 102 cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/book-tal…

3/11: Sultan Alamer on "Digital Governance in Saudi Arabia: From Brokers to Apps" 4:00pm, CMES, Rm 102 cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/digital-…

3/10: Nubar Hovsepian (Chapman University) on "After the Last Sky: Edward Said and the Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual" 12:30pm, CMES, Rm 102 cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/after-la…

3/1o: Yasemin Karakus on "Reading an Alevi Ritual Manual In Early Republican Turkey: ‘Ayn-i Erkân Risâlesi" 4:30pm, CMES, Rm 102 cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/reading-…

Harvard Education School & Turkish Language/ I will deliver a lecture 😉@HarvardNELC @HarvardCMES @hgse

3/3: Reyhan Durmaz (@DumbartonOaks) on "Agents of Peace, Ministers of the Holy: Soldiers as Ritual Experts in the Early Medieval Middle East" 5:30pm, Thompson Rm, Barker Center cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/agents-p…

Very much looking forward to giving an invited talk on "China and the Asymmetric Great Power Competition in the Middle East" tomorrow at Harvard, co-organized by @HarvardCMES & @HarvardWCFIA cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/china-an…

PLEASE NOTE: this event has been postponed due to inclement weather.

2/24: Anwar Mhajne on "Weaponizing Gender Online: Disinformation, Politics, and Public Discourse in the Middle East" 4:30pm, CMES Rm 102 cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/weaponiz…

#Employment The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University invites applications for a Lecturer in Armenian Studies. mesana.org/resources-and-…

Need just a little more time to finalize or polish your proposal for MESA 2026? Good news! For details see our CFP here: mesana.org/annual-meeting…

2/26: Gangzhen She on "China and the Asymmetric Great Power Competition in the Middle East" 4:30pm, CGIS Knafel 262 cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/china-an…

NEW PUBLICATION: After the Earthquake: The Politics of Disaster Response in Turkey - A Crown Conversation with Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu In February 2023, devastating earthquakes struck southeastern Turkey and northwest Syria, killing more than 50,000 people. In the aftermath, attention quickly shifted from the scale of the disaster to the state’s ability to coordinate rescue and relief. Three years on, we speak with Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu about why the Turkish government struggled to respond effectively and what the experience reveals about governance in Turkey today. In this Crown Conversation, she argues that the problem was not simply one of resources or capacity, but the effects of an increasingly centralized authoritarian system—one that has weakened institutions, constrained expertise and civil society, and prioritized information control, with consequences that extend well beyond emergency management. Click here to read the full Crown Conversation: brandeis.edu/crown/publicat…

2/18: Raphael Cormack on "'How Jewish Was James Sanua?' Raphael Cormack in Conversation with Jessica Marglin and Adam Mestyan" 12 pm on Zoom Register here: cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/how-jewi…