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Houssem Chachia Wins Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Houssem Eddine Chachia, the inaugural Hazem Ben-Gacem Postdoctoral Fellow at CMES in 2017-18, has been awarded the the 2024 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Young Author category for his work Al Mashhad al-Moriski: Sardiyat al-Tard fi al-Fikr al-Espani (The Morisco Landscape Narratives of Expulsion in Modern Spanish Thought). Read more about Chachia and the award.
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Post-war/Post-disaster Recovery of Aleppo: Rethinking the Past and the Future
Monday, April 15, 2024 / 5-6:30pm / CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge
Anas Soufan, Associate of CMES, Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, GSD, artist, architect, and heritage specialist, NABNI-H, France
Contact: Liz Flanagan
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Film Screening: US Premiere of Lyd and Discussion with the Filmmakers
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 / 7-9pm / Science Center Hall D, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge
Rami Younis, director and producer; Sarah Ema Friedland, director and cinematographer. Moderator: Hilary Rantisi, Associate Director, Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, HDS
Co-sponsored with: Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, Religion and Public Life, HDS; Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, FXB Center, Harvard University
Contact: Reem Atassi
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Gaza as Epicenter: An Alternative Reading
Thursday, April 18, 2024 / 6-8pm / Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South S010, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge
Tareq Baconi, President of the Board, Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network
Note: **Open to Harvard ID holders only**
Contact: Liz Flanagan
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Annual Conference on Political Economy of the Muslim World
Friday, April 19, 2024, and Saturday, April 20, 2024 / all day both days / Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South S010, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge
The Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies presents a workshop and conference on the Political Economy of the Muslim World. Organizing committee: Melani Cammet, Harvard University; Asim Khwaja, Harvard University; Timur Kuran, Duke University; Tarek Masoud, Harvard University
Co-sponsored with: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program; Middle East Initiative, BCSIA, HKS; Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Department of Economics
Contact: t.kuran@duke.edu
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Writing to Survive
Friday, April 19, 2024 / 2-3:30pm / CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge
Burhan Sönmez, novelist and President of PEN International
Contact: Liz Flanagan
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The Ottoman Scientific Heritage: Past, Present, and Future
Friday, April 26 / 4-6pm / Harvard Faculty Club, Rm 205, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Saturday, April 27 / 10am-4:30pm / Belfer Case Study Rm, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge
A symposium in honor of the recent publication of the English edition of The Ottoman Scientific Heritage by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, translated by Maryam Patton
Co-sponsored with: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation
Contact: Liz Flanagan
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A Looming Famine: Starvation in Gaza
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 / 11am-12:30pm / Online via Zoom
A panel discussion with Alex De Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation; Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food; Georgios Petropoulos, Head of Gaza sub-office, UN OCHA. Moderator: Jacqueline Bhabha, FXB Director of Research
Co-sponsored with: Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights; Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, HDS; Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, HKS
Contact: Sarah Banse
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Pernicious Prejudice: Scholarly Approaches to Antisemitism and Islamophobia
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 / 4:30-6pm / Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South S010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, and online via YouTube
A panel discussion with Jeffrey Kopstein, University of California, Irvine; Nazita Lajevardi, Michigan State University; Kassra A.R. Oskooii, University of Delaware, and Sabine von Mering, Brandeis University. Chair: Eric Beerbohm, Harvard University. Moderator: Melani Cammett, Harvard University
Co-sponsored with: Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics; Center for Jewish Studies; Center for American Political Studies; FAS Civil Discourse Initiative
Contact: Sarah Banse
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Processes of Dispossession: The Imminent Collapse of Tunisian Oases (and What Can We Do about It)
Friday, May 3, 2024 / 2-3:30pm / CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge
Safouan Azouzi, Hazem Ben-Gacem Postdoctoral Fellow, CMES, designer, design researcher, and commons specialist
Contact: Liz Flanagan
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