Tunisia Office
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
January 17, 2017
Through your visionary support, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies opened its first overseas office in Tunisia, home to a tradition of learning and research that extends from Antiquity to the present. “Thanks to your generosity, Harvard students and scholars have greater resources to pursue in-depth field research and can more substantively engage in language and cultural immersion experiences,” Bill Granara said.
Tunisia Office Inaugural Celebration
CMES Winter Term Excursion 2017
EL HARA, a documentary short film
CMES Winter Term Excursion 2016
Tunisia Office Inaugural Celebration
“We are always seeking opportunities to make the University more intentionally global, and the field office in Tunisia will bring the world to Harvard and Harvard to the world in exciting new ways that will shape important work across fields and disciplines.” —Drew Faust, Harvard University President
“The Middle East is a part of the world that you’ll never fully understand unless you get your feet on the ground and experience it first-hand.” —Bill Granara, CMES Director and Professor of Arabic
CMES Winter Term Excursion 2017
EL HARA, a documentary short film
Margaux Fitoussi MTS ’17
Margaux Fitoussi, then an MTS candidate at Harvard Divinity School, visited Tunis in 2016 as part of the first CMES Winter Term excursion for graduate students to Tunisia. Her interest in the Hara, the city’s historic Jewish neighborhood, resulted in a multimedia exhibition and a short documentary film that she co-directed. While the film is currently not available publicly, Ms. Fitoussi is delighted to grant you a sneak peek at her treatment of this fascinating piece of the city’s history.
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You can find out more about Ms. Fitoussi’s work in this CMES interview.
CMES Winter Term Excursion 2016
