lectures and talks

The Brown Bag Lunch Series on "Disability in the Arab World" at Georgetown University aims to explore disability as an issue of social justice and human diversity in the context of the Arab world. Join the second session via Zoom next Tuesday, February 11, from 12.30-1.30 pm, featuring Halla Attallah, a doctoral student in Georgetown … Continue reading Remote Talk: “Disability in the Arab World,” Georgetown University

Please join us for our first Roy Reminisces—tea and cookies with Professor Roy Mottahedeh! Monday, February 24 from 1-3 pm at 38 Kirkland Street, Room 102. Prof. Mottahedeh will join us to share memories of the history of CMES and other tales. It’s an open house, and stop by when you can. This event is … Continue reading Open House: “Roy Reminisces with Professor Roy Mottahedeh,” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

CMES and the Committee on Medieval Studies present a book talk Narrating Muslim Sicily War and Peace in the Medieval Muslim World William E. Granara Gordon Gray Professor of the Practice of Arabic, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations  & Department of Comparative Literature; Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University  In 902 the last … Continue reading Book Talk: “Narrating Muslim Sicily War and Peace in the Medieval Muslim World,” William E. Granara, Gordon Gray Professor of the Practice of Arabic, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations & Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University