UC Berkeley CMES
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at the University of California, Berkeley promotes the interdisciplinary study of the Middle East on campus and beyond, raising public awareness of the region’s diversity and its connection to global contexts.
From colloquia and conferences, to grant and research programs, to lecture and film series, we organize a wide variety of academic opportunities and extracurricular activities. Feel free to explore our website and join our mailing list for the latest updates on events and programs.
"Women and the Politics of Life: A Teach-in on Iran" symposium | UC Berkeley | CMES
50(+) years of Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship
Ethnography and Social Art: Vehicles for Cultural & Social Understanding (Aman Mojadidi)
Forgery and History in the Political Projects of 19th-century Muslim West Africa (Mauro Nobili)
Making a Muslim: Contesting Identities in 19th century North India (S.Akbar Zaidi)
‘Black Markets & Militants' –Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa (Khaled Medani)
Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space (Alda Benjamen)
Qur’ānic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience (Leyla Ozgur Alhassen)
Against Time: Epidemics and medical temporalities from bubonic plague to COVID-19 (Ahmed Ragab)
Embroidered Canticles: Jewish-Muslim Moroccan Music (Izza Genini)
The Rise and Demise of Lebanon's Financial System (Hicham Safieddine)
Afrofuturism (Ytasha L. Womack)
Deconstructing Memories of Ali in Sunni and Shiʿi Islam (Nebil Husayn)
Representations of Arab Women (Amal Mohammed Al-Malki)
Global Kitabkhana (Chanchal Dadlani)
Interpreting the Bible (Robert Alter)
Netflix in Turkey: Polarization on Demand
Soundtrack of the Revolution (Nahid Siamdoust)
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria (Wendy Pearlman)
Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya (Matthew Ellis)
Iran: A Modern History (Abbas Amanat)
Colonial al Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture (Eric Calderwood)
MENA Lit Chat: The Last Watchman of Old Cairo (Michael Lukas)
Nora Fisher Onar, E. Fuat Keyman
What's in a Grape? (Ariel Handel)
Citizen Enemies (Smadar Ben Natan)
Women of Mosul in the Age of Terrorism and Beyond (Omar Mohammed)
Emptied Lands: A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev (Sandy Kedar)
American Qur'an (Sandow Birk)
The Demise of Islamist Utopia: What's Next (Hicham Alaoui)