Middle East Seminar

2016 Feb 18

Middle East Seminar

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

"The Ceaseless Quest for Saudi Arabia: Central Arabian Nationhood and its Spillover Effects"

Speaker:

Nadav Samin, Lecturer, Anthropology and Government, Dartmouth College.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Sarah Banse 
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2016 Mar 31

Middle East Seminar

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

"The Geopolitics of the Iran Deal: Winners and Losers"

Speaker:

Karim Sadjapour, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
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2016 Feb 04

Middle East Seminar

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

"Current Challenges of Development Assistance in Palestine: The Politicization of Aid to Gaza and the West Bank"

Speaker:

Bill Corcoran, President and CEO, American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA).

Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
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2015 Nov 10

Middle East Seminar

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 15 Eliot Street, Fifth Floor, Allison Dining Room

"The Ongoing Crisis in Syria: Destruction of the Syrian State and the Changing Face of Conflict"

Speaker:

Michael Wahid Hanna, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center on Law and Security, New York University School of Law.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe Study Group, Center for European Studies; and the Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
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2015 Oct 15

Middle East Seminar

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

“The Conditions Inside Syria: A View from the Field”

Speakers:

Ammar Kourany, Safety Liaison Manager, Save the Children, Syria.

Abdulkarim Ekzayez, Health Program Manager, Save the Children, Syria.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Liz Flanagan
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2015 Oct 22

Middle East Seminar

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

"People at the Gates of Sovereignty: Have We Reached a Turning Point?"

Speaker:

Jennifer Leaning, Faculty Associate. François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population; Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
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2015 Sep 17

Middle East Seminar

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

2 Divinity Avenue, Yenching Auditorium

"New Visions and Strategies for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace"

Speakers:

Hilik Bar, Member, Israeli Knesset; Secretary-General, Labor Party.

Husam Zomlot, Ambassador at Large, Palestine.

Co-sponsored by the Conference on Intractable Conflicts, Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
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2015 Sep 10

Middle East Seminar

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

"Understanding or Misunderstanding the Middle East and Turkey in 2015"

Speaker:

Cengiz Candar, Senior Columnist, Radikal and Op-Ed Writer, Al-Monitor.

Co-sponsored by the Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Weatherhead Center; and the Study Group on the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
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2015 Mar 26

Middle East Seminar

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

"Assessing American, European and Arab Efforts to Incentivize Israeli-Palestinian Peace"

Speaker:

Dr. Nimrod Goren, Mitvim, The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
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2015 Feb 26

Middle East Seminar

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

"Do Muslim Women Need Saving?: Reflections on the Politics of Feminism in the Middle East"

Speaker:

Lila Abu-Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science; Director, Middle East Institute Columbia University.

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2015 Feb 12

Middle East Seminar

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

"Jerusalem: Towards a Workable Final Status Solution"

Speaker:

Constance Mayer, Chief, The Arab-Israeli, Levant and North Africa Division, Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR)/Office of Analysis on the Near East and South Asia (NESA), US Department of State.

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