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Fawaz Gerges, a Middle East expert, gives a talks featuring two themes: the broken Middle East and the War on Terror. He explores what has happen in the last ten years in the Middle East and…

Highlight reel from Zoom interview with Donna Mejia conducted by Nancy McElroy. This video covers Donna's start in ballet, her transition to Transcultural Fusion Dance, her time at CU Boulder…

Journalist and author George Packer joined CMES Director Nader Hashemi for a Majlis roundtable discussion on what the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed within American society and the U.S. political…

Hasan Ayoub, CMES Visiting Scholar and Assistant Professor at An-Najah National University in Nablus, talked to CMES Director Nader Hashemi about how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting…

Following the U.S. killing of Iranian military leader Qassem Suleimani in Iraq, the Center for Middle East Studies hosted a public conversation between Director Nader Hashemi and Distinguished Fellow…

On September 14, 2018, CMES hosted Dr. Craig Considine, sociologist at Rice University, for a discussion on the history and misconceptions of American Muslims and Islam more broadly. The…

Much has been written about the causes of the 1979 revolution. This vast literature tends to ignore why this impressive looking state unraveled so quickly and so spectacularly. It did so mainly…

CMES Director Nader Hashemi and Distinguished Fellow Gary Grappo held a public conversation on the COVID-19 crisis in the Middle East, with particular focus on the responses from authoritarian…

CMES Director Nader Hashemi joined a university-wide panel featuring faculty from a range of disciplines on the academy's response to the global resurgence of extremist, far-right ideologies.…

ICRS Middle East Director Nader Hashemi joined Al Jazeera English to discuss the Trump administration's call for new economic sanctions on Iran despite international opposition.

CMES Director Nader Hashemi joined @TRT World on October 15 to discuss the impacts, if any, of the U.S. presidential election outcome on U.S. policy toward Israel and Palestine.

MA candidate Tali Grumet speaks with Professor Jonathan Adelman about the current conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Professor Nader Hashemi, director of our Center for Middle East Studies, speaks with Al Jazeera on June 25, 2016, about reports that for the first time Russia/Assad warplanes dropped incendiary bombs…

Nader Hashemi, Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Middle East Studies, talks with Al Jazeera about Syria and the peace process.

On October 23, 2018, the Center for Middle East Studies, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Department of History hosted a public conversation on the potential implications of the expanded…

On November 2, 2018, the Center for Middle East Studies hosted a discussion with Dr. Paul Silverstein, professor of anthropology at Reed College, Dean Pardis Mahdavi, and Professor Rachel Esptein…