Sep 22 18:15 - 19:30 Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Omar Abdel Ghaffar (Harvard University), “Canonizing Assent: Legal Canons in Action in late Medieval Jerusalem,” September 22, 2025 @6:15pm
Sep 30 All day Study Group: “The Struggle for Democracy in the Arab World” with Youssef Chahed and Hisham Kassem (Senior Fellows, Middle East Initiative), September 30, 2025
Oct 9 16:30 - 17:30 Talk: “The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan, Waging War by Law,” Adam Baczko, October 9, 2025 @ 4:30pm
Oct 14 12:30 - 13:30 Islamic Law Speaker Series: Rami Koujah (Harvard Law School), The Invention of Islamic Legal Personhood: Artifact to Ontology, October 14, 2025 @12:30pm
Oct 20 18:15 - 19:30 Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Prof. Houssem Chachia (University of Tunis), “The Conquest of Tunis (1535): Memory, Defeat, and Celebration Across Cultures,” October 20, 2025 @6:15pm
Nov 3 18:15 - 19:30 Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Ozkan Karabulut (Harvard University), “Scripturalization of the Alevi Mystical Poetry,” November 3, 2025 @6:15pm
Nov 11 12:30 - 13:30 Islamic Law Speaker Series: Youssef Belal (United Nations), “Thinking the World with Islamic Knowledges,” November 11, 2025 @12:30pm
Nov 17 18:15 - 19:30 Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Cem Turkoz (Harvard University), “Ottoman Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Context: The Evolution of the Canon,” November 17, 2025 @6:15pm
