Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Paul Cobb (Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania), Crusade, Captivity, and Wonder: Johannes Schiltberger's Traveler Tales. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and...

A book talk on Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian: Eulogist for a Falling Homeland by author William E. Granara, Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern...

Michael Cooperson (University of California Los Angeles), Learning Arabic Backwards: Was It Absolutely Frightening? Sponsored by the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies. This event will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to...

Michael Cooperson (University of California Los Angeles), Rethinking Arabic Literary History. Sponsored by the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies. This event will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register.

A two-day symposium on Arabic literature of the pre-nahda Ottoman era (1516-1789), featuring a keynote address by Hilary Kilpatrick (Independent Scholar) and presentations by Helen Pfeifer (Cambridge University), Ghayde Ghraowi (Yale University), Theodore...

Nathanael Aschenbrenner (CMES Byzantine Postdoctoral Fellow), Universal Monarchy Between Sultan and Pope: Reorienting Constantinople in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean and Siren Çelik (CMES Byzantine Postdoctoral Fellow), Manuel II Palaiologos (1350...

Siren Çelik (Byzantine Postdoctoral Fellow, CMES), Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425): A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult.

A talk by William Granara (Harvard) on his new book Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World (I.B. Tauris, 2019); co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Committee on Medieval Studies.

A day-long symposium featuring presentations by Shady Nasser (Harvard University), Gabriel Said Reynolds (University of Notre Dame), Walid Saleh (University of Toronto), Devin Stewart (Emory University), Behnam Sadeghi (Oxford University), François...

Samuel England (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Arabic Classes and Classics in the Opera House. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. The officials who designed Egypt’s Opera House in the...