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Protestors face riot police during a demonstration in Tunis, Tunisia, Friday Jan. 12, 2018. Tunisia's government says protests appear to be subsiding after anger over food prices led to days of clashes with police that left one dead, dozens injured and widespread damage.

AP Photo/Hassene Dridi

Seminar - Open to the Public

The Political Psychology of Repression: Identity and Polarization in Egypt and Tunisia

Wed., Mar. 28, 2018 | 4:15pm - 5:30pm

Rubenstein Building - David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Room 414AB

A seminar with Elizabeth Nugent, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Part of the Middle East Initiative Research Fellows Seminar Series.

In this March 1, 2016, file photo, a Russian soldier keeps watch as local residents receive humanitarian aid in the Syrian village of Ghunaymiyah, about 15 kilometers from the Turkish border.

AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin

Seminar - Open to the Public

Challenges of Humanitarian Access in Syria’s De-Escalation Zones: Student Report Back on Humanitarian Negotiation in the Middle East

Wed., Mar. 28, 2018 | 11:40am - 1:00pm

Taubman Building - WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Room 102

Students from Middle East Initiative-supported J-Term Middle East Field Study Course on Humanitarian Negotiations on the Frontlines (IGA-353M) present their findings and reflect on their experiences investigating humanitarian access and protection issues within 'De-Escalation Zones' in Syria.

Moderated by Claude Bruderlein, MEI Faculty Affiliate; Strategic Advisor to the President, International Committee for the Red Cross; and Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS.

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and the program on Advanced Training in Humanitarian Action.

People search under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017.

AP Photo/Hani Mohammed

Seminar - Open to the Public

Yemen's Humanitarian Crisis: Conflict, Cholera, and International Response

Tue., Mar. 27, 2018 | 4:10pm - 6:00pm

Belfer Building - Starr Auditorium, Floor 2.5

A panel discussion with Safa A. Karman, Yemeni Investigative Journalist, LL.M. Candidate at Harvard Law School, and MPP Candidate at Oxford University; Kristine Beckerle, Yemen Researcher, Human Rights Watch; Claude Bruderlein, Strategic Advisor to the President of the International Committee for the Red Cross and MEI Faculty Affiliate; and Noor Al-Kasadi, Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF Yemen.

Moderated by Steven Caton, Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Anthropology Department, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Advanced Training Program in Humanitarian Action.

Production still from Wajib (Palestine, 2017).

Pyramide Films

Special Series - Open to the Public

Middle East Film Series: Wajib (Palestine, 2017)

Thu., Mar. 8, 2018 | 7:30pm - 9:10pm

MEI is at capacity for ticket requests to the screening of Palestine's entry for Best Foreign Language Film to the Oscars, Wajib, by Annemarie Jacir, at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). Please see the MFA website for further opportunities to purchase tickets.

Co-presented by the Boston Palestine Film Festival.

The film will also be screened on Sunday, March 4, 3:30pm at the MFA. Tickets for both screenings are available directly from the MFA at http://www.mfa.org/programs/series/wajib.

Lebanese lawmaker Nayla Tueni, the daughter of slain An-Nahar newspaper general manager and legislator Gibran Tueni, who was killed in 2005 by a car bombing, arrives at the Parliament for the election of the house speaker in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, June 25, 2009.

AP Photo/Hussein Malla

Seminar - Open to the Public

Women’s Political Empowerment in Lebanon

Mon., Feb. 26, 2018 | 4:10pm - 5:30pm

Littauer Building - Fainsod Room, 324

A seminar with Carmen S. Geha, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program (spring 2018); Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration, American University of Beirut.