Middle East Initiative

A seminar with Nermin Allam, Assistant Professor of Politics at Rutgers University - Newark, on her recent book, Women and the Egyptian Revolution: Engagement and Activism during the 2011 Arab Uprisings (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Moderated by Hind Ahmed Zaki, Associate at Middle East Initiative, HKS, and Harold Grinspoon Junior Research Fellow, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University.

Join the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School for a screening of the animated documentary short film, Half a Life (Egypt, the Netherlands, USA, 2017), followed by a discussion with Film Director Tamara Shogaolu, Egyptian LGBTQ activist Ibrahim Abdella, and moderator Yasmin Padamsee Forbes, Commissioner for the Cambridge Human Rights Commission and Fellow at the Carr Center, HKS.

The event will take place in Wasserstein 1019 at Harvard Law School. Lunch will be served.

Sponsored by the Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change as part of the Human Rights, Justice, and Accountability in the Muslim World Film Series. Co-sponsored by the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School, LAMBDA at Harvard Law, and HLS Advocates for Human Rights.

A seminar with Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum in Cairo.

Location: Wasserstein Hall, Room 1019, Harvard Law School

Film screening of The Judge and discussion with the film’s Director, Erika Cohn, and Palestine legal historian Professor Elizabeth Brownson (University of Wisconsin Parkside), moderated by ILSP: LSC Faculty Director Professor Kristen Stilt.

Sponsored by the Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change as part of the Human Rights, Justice, and Accountability in the Muslim World Film Series.

Co-Sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, the Religious Literacy Project at the Harvard Divinity School, the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, and HLS Advocates for Human Rights.

Dinner will be served.

Join us for a screening of Sour Apples, a 2016 Turkish film directed by Yılmaz Erdoğan.

A seminar with Curtis R. Ryan, Professor of Political Science at Appalachian State University, on his recent book, Jordan and the Arab Uprisings: Regime Survival and Politics Beyond the State (Columbia University Press, 2018).

A seminar with Shaden Khallaf, Senior Policy Advisor for the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) MENA Bureau.

Location: Wasserstein Hall, Room 1019, Harvard Law School

A film screening of The Long Season and discussion with Producer Pieter Van Huystee, moderated by Anna Crowe, Lecturer on Law and Clinical Instructor at the International Human Rights Clinic.

Sponsored by the Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change as part of the Human Rights, Justice, and Accountability in the Muslim World Film Series.

Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, the Religious Literacy Project at the Harvard Divinity School, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, and HLS Advocates for Human Rights.

A seminar with David Kirkpatrick, New York Times International Correspondent and Cairo Bureau Chief, 2011-2015, on his recent book Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East (Viking, 2018).

Followed by a book signing at the Harvard COOP, 1400 Mass Ave in Harvard Square.

Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy.

Location: Center for Government and International Studies, South Building, Room S030, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

A panel discussion with Jacqueline Bhabha (FXB Center at HSPH), Sofia Kouvelaki (The Home Project, Athens), and Vidur Chopra (HGSE). Moderated by Melani Cammett (Harvard Government Department).

Co-sponsored by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Lunch will be served.