Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop

Academic Year 2021-2022

Faculty Adviser:
Prof. Malika Zeghal, mzeghal@fas.harvard.edu

Graduate Student Coordinator:
Omar Abdel-Ghaffar, oabdelghaffar@g.harvard.edu

The Middle East Beyond Borders (MEBB) workshop aims to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars working on the past and present of the Middle East. It takes as its founding premise the idea that the “Middle East” as an object of inquiry must fundamentally engage notions of boundaries, mobility, and transformation. Our goal is to offer a platform for collaboration and discussion to all Middle East scholars at Harvard across a wide range of academic fields and disciplines. To date, our community has welcomed scholars from NELC, History, Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology, the Study of Religion, Law, Art and Architecture, and more. During meetings, we typically workshop a polished work-in-progress from an advanced graduate student, but we occasionally accept papers from visiting scholars and faculty members.

Please email oabdelghaffar@g.harvard.edu for the Zoom link and to request drafts of papers, if available, prior to the workshop session.

Fall 2021 schedule:
TBA

PAST EVENTS:

Fall 2020 meetings: