Past Events

Join us for an evening with internationally acclaimed Iranian-American author Moniro Ravanipour. Ravanipour was born in Jofreh, a village on the coast of the Persian Gulf. Her birthplace has had a substantial impact on…

Since 2019, Lebanon has been rocked by a series of protests and political upheavals, culminating with the resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri in October. Join our panel of specialists for a discussion and analysis…

In this lecture, Dr. Alon Tam will explore the social history of the Jewish community in Egypt, with a special emphasis on the city of Cairo, in the late 19 th century and the first half of the 20 th century. He will…

"Ian Lustick has written a richly informed and persuasive account of how the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians has become the seemingly dead-end tragedy it is today. This book provides an especially…

Join us for an evening with Mosab Abu Toha, the founder of the Edward Said Library, Gaza's only English-only library. Abu Toha is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and Visiting…

The Middle East Center invites you to Education in the Arab World: Challenges Past, Present & Future. In this conversation, moderated by the Penn Graduate School of Education's Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, a panel of…

The Arabo-Islamic empire is known for its many contributions to diverse fields such as philosophy, medicine, literature, and the sciences, yet the role that women played in these fields, as well as their agency in the…

Since the late 1940s the United States maintains a complicated relationship with Saudi Arabia. Our country’s economic and strategic interests are intertwined with those of Saudi Arabia. Due to this Saudi Arabia often is…

Much of the literature on the destruction of the Ottoman Armenians tells the story of a state captured by a radical party that enforced genocidal measures throughout the land. Scholarship about genocidal activity at the…