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The ‘Ulamā’s Tradition: Reconceptualizing and Editing Turāth in Modern Egypt
April 5, 2023
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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38 Kirkland Street, CMES, Room 102
In Person
Lecture by Mary Elston, Alwaleed Bin Talal Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam
March 23, 2023
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4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT
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12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Room 133 – Plimpton Room
In Person
Lecture by Ayesha Irani, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of Massachusetts in Boston Co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Department of Asian...

Harvard-Zaytuna Thesis Symposium Inaugural Lecture
March 3, 2023
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5:00PM - 7:30PM EST
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45 Francis Avenue, Harvard Divinity School, Williams Chapel
In Person
The Harvard Undergraduate Theologos Society, in partnership with The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and The Department for Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations is delighted to invite you to this year’s Inaugural Symposium lecture offered by Shaykh...

From Above and Below: Reading an Ancient Society
March 1, 2023
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5:00PM - 7:00PM EST
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33 Kirkland Street, William James Hall, Room 105
In Person
Gojko Barjamovic, Senior Lecturer on Assyriology, Harvard University Gojko Barjamovic has taught Assyriology at Harvard since 2013. His research interests include institutional and civic order, wealth and inequality, literacy and knowledge production...

Workshop: Integration of Language, Culture and Content

February 24, 2023
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1:00PM - 4:00PM EST
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12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Room 024 – McFadden Room (lower level)
In Person
With support from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Dept. of NELC Facilitator: Prof. Gabriela Nik Ilieva, New York University (gni1@nyu.edu) In the field of foreign language education, a backward design framework recommends that lesson...

Making Priest and Temple in Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon (484–60 BCE)
February 23, 2023
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4:00PM - 6:00PM EST
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William James Hall Room 105, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
In Person
Céline Debourse, Postdoctoral fellow, Mandel Scholion Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dr. Céline Debourse studies history and cult in the city of Babylon during the Persian, Seleucid, and Parthian periods. She received her Ph.D. from the...

Constructing the Past in Babylon
February 16, 2023
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4:00PM - 6:00PM EST
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Sever Hall Room 113, 25 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
In Person
Odette Boivin, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Münster Odette Boivin obtained her PhD in Assyriology at the University of Toronto in 2016 with a thesis on mid-second...

Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating a Political and Cultural Space
February 15, 2023
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4:30PM - 6:00PM EST
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CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
In Person
The Mishael and Lillie Naby Assyrian Lecture Fund, NELC, and CMES are pleased to present Alda Benjamen Assistant Professor in Middle East History, Department of History, University of Dayton Alda Benjamen is an Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern...

Christianity in Iraq: Challenges and Hopes
Nov 17, 2022
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4:30PM EST
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Williams Chapel, Swartz Hall 212, 45 Francis Avenue
In Person
His Excellency Archbishop Bashar Warda, Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Erbil, Iraq Christianity in Iraq is on the brink of erasure. Once home to some of the world’s oldest Christian sites and communities, Iraq and the greater Levant has witnessed an...

Seminar: Manifesto of the Great Resurrection (Qiyāmat-i buzurg)
November 10, 2022
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4:00PM - 5:30PM EST
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CGIS South S354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
In Person
"Manifesto of the Great Resurrection (Qiyāmat-i buzurg): Examining a rare subaltern Nizari Ismaili Shi'i treatise from the 12th century " Thursday, November 10, 2022 | 4-5:30pm | CGIS South S354 Shiraz Hajiani Alwaleed Bin Talal Postdoctoral Fellow...