Speaker: Robert R. Kaufman, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University

Professor Kaufman will highlight some of the major findings of his forthcoming book with Stephan Haggard. The talk will focus on how economic inequality and political institutions have affected the stability of democratic regimes emerging throughout the world during the “third wave” of democratization.  The implications for the future of Latin American democracies will receive particular attention.   

Robert Putnam
Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard

Robert Putnam is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. In 2006, Putnam received the Skytte Prize, the world's highest accolade for a political scientist, and in 2012, he received the...

Frye Memorial Lecture
Christopher Beckwith, Indiana University: 

Rahile Dawut, Xinjiang University

Kaie Mochizuki, Minobusan University

The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Ali Akbar Alikhani
Associate Professor of Political Thought in the Islamic World, Chair, Arab World Studies Department, University of Tehran; Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Contact: Liz Flanagan

The Sohbet-i Osmani Seminar Series presents

Özge Ertem
CMES Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow (2015-16)

Contact: Liz Flanagan

The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Co-authors Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami

Robin Yassin-Kassab is a journalist and a regular media commentator on Syria and the Middle East. Yassin-Kassab is author of the novel The Road from Damascus (Hamish Hamilton and Penguin, 2009). He is co-author of the forthcoming book on the Syrian revolution and war, ...

CMES and ACANSRS present

Michael Barry
Lecturer, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

Brilliantly reflected in the medieval Persian-language epic poetry of Firdawsî and Nizâmî - illustrated by the finest miniaturists throughout the lands that are today Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and India - Alexander's encounters with different civilizations from the Nile to the Indus resulted in his mythological metamorphosis into a son of Egypt's last Pharaoh, into a worshiper of the True God in Jerusalem's Temple, into a thunder-wielding...

CMES presents a symposium

Iraq: Possible Futures - Including a return to the past

Since its creation out of the three Ottoman Provinces - Basra, Baghdad and Mosul - after 1914, Iraq has been occupied several times, battled with Kurdish separatism, subject to a number of political revolutions, endured the long dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and several wars or periods of great tension with its Eastern neighbor, Iran. Not to speak of huge annual floods, uncertain title to land and now, paradoxically, low oil prices, heightened by sectarianism exacerbated by the...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Zackery M. Heern
Assistant Professor, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Department of History, Idaho State University

Contact: Liz Flanagan

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Seminar Series presents

İpek Kocaomer Yosmaoğlu
Assistant Professor, History, Northwestern University

İpek Yosmaoğlu (Ph.D. Princeton, 2005) is an historian of the late Ottoman Empire. She taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton before joining the history department at Northwestern in 2010. Her research interests include nationalism, violence, political legitimacy and state modernization. She has completed a book entitledBlood...

The South Asia Institute at Harvard, The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard, The Department of Music at Harvard, The Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Asia Center, and the Provostial Fund for Arts and Humanities present

The inaugural meeting of what will be the ICTM Study Group on the Music of Greater South Asia(ICTM: International Council of Traditional Music).  The growing number of scholars of South Asian music internationally calls out for an independent organization focused on...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Henri Lauzière
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University
Prof. Lauzière's research interests lie at the intersection of Islamic intellectual history and the modern political history of the Arab world, including North Africa. His recent book, The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century, was published in 2016 by Columbia University Press.

Various analysts have defined Salafism as an “ideology of hate,” an “ideology of authoritarian, rationalized...