Upcoming Events

Facing Others: Iranian Identity Boundaries and Modern Political Culture
Conference dates: April 25-27, 2008
Yale University, New Haven, CT
This workshop will explore the long and complex process that made Iranians inherently more conscious of their historical, cultural and geopolitical Self versus real and imaginary Others. The conference aims to be interdisciplinary and cross-national with emphasis on history and anthropology. Open Invitation.

Born Digital: Egypt's New Bibliotheca Alexandrina
May 1, 2008, 6:00PM
Tufts University, Tisch Library, Room 304
Speaker: Noha Adly, Director of the Information and Communication Technology Department and of the International School of Information Science, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (ISIS); Associate Professor of Computers and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University
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Between Cohesion and Fragmentation: Internal Influences on Strategy in the Palestinian National Movement
May 1, 2008, 12:15PM – 2:00 PM
Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369,  Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge MA
Sponsored by the Belfer Center's International Security Program
Speaker: Wendy Pearlman, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Intrastate Conflict Program, Harvard University
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Memorial Roundtable for Muhsin Mahdi, James Richard Jewett Professor of  Arabic Emeritus, Harvard University
May 5, 2008, 2:00PM – 6:00PM
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Opening Greeting: Wolfhart P. Heinrichs, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic, Harvard University
Moderators: Prof. Charles Butterworth, University of Maryland; Dr. Sandra Naddaff, Harvard University
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The Secret History in the Turkic Orhon Inscriptions
May 6, 2008, 4:00PM – 6:00PM
CGIS  N354, Department of Government, 1737 Cambridge St, Harvard University Cambridge MA
Speaker: Engin Sezer, Ph.D. in Linguistics, Harvard University; Professor of Turkish Language and Literature, Bilkent University

So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits - and the President - Failed in Iraq
May 7, 2008, 6:00PM – 7:30PM
MIT Bldg 32-141, Stata Center 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
A Starr Forum sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies
Speaker: Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher where he writes the column "Pressing Issues," and is the author of eight books.
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The Law of Waqf 2: Modern State Control and Nationalization
May 16-18, 2008
Harvard Law School, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
Keynote: Rudolph Peters, University of Amsterdam; Concluding Remarks: Randi Deguilhem, CNRS/IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence
This second Law of Waqf Conference will explore colonial law vis-à-vis the waqf both as an institution and as physical property in the Muslim world before the independence of the colonized countries.
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