Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Reflections on the Past, Visions for the Future

Edited by Don Babai

    • Preface

    Part I

    • Fifty-Year Odyssey: A Historical Overview of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, by Don Babai
    • Notes

    Part II

    • A Look at the Center Today
    • Academic Programs, Students, and Alumni
    • PhD Graduates and Dissertations, 1956-2004
    • Outreach
    • Research Projects and Programs
      • Moroccan Studies Program
      • Contemporary Arab Studies Program
      • Arab Education Forum
      • Ottoman Court Records Project
      • Historians of the Ottoman Empire
      • Iranian Oral History Project
      • Iraq Research and Documentation Project
    • Visiting Scholars and Research Associates
    • Seminars and Conferences
    • Scholarly Publications

    Part III

    • The Future
    • Transitions, by Steven C. Caton
    • A Vision for the Center, by William A. Graham
    • History, by Cema Kafadar
    • Philology by Wolfhart P. Heinriobs
    • Economics, by Roger Owen
    • Politics, by Eva Bellin
    • Islamic Law and Civilization, by Frank E. Vogel
    • Women's Studies, by Afsaneh Niajmabacii
    • Modern Arabic Language and Literature, by William E Granara
    • Anthropology, by Engseng Ho
    • Music, by Virginia Danielson
    • Urban Design, by Hashim Sarkis
    • Health Care and Social Development, by Satmaan Keshavjee
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Don Babai is an Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. His research interests include banking and finance in the contemporary Middle East and the development policies of international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. He has taught, mainly in the area of international political economy, at Harvard, Boston University, the University of Maryland at College Park, and the University of California at Davis. He holds a doctorate in international relations from the University of California at Berkeley.