CMES Tunisia

Yo-Yo Ma Comes to Tunisia, with a Little Help from CMES

Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and his Bach Project visited Tunisia in March 2022

Yo-Yo Ma performing at the Cité de la Culture Tunis

About CMES Tunisia

The CMES Tunisia Office is the first overseas branch of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Established in Tunis in January 2017, the office offers an in-situ base for Harvard students and scholars conducting research on the Maghreb and the Middle East. The office’s mission is to host Harvard students in a site geographically located in the area they are studying, to build and strengthen connections and collaboration opportunities with Tunisian, North African, and Middle Eastern academia, and to facilitate research work for Harvard researchers within the Tunisian research institutions, libraries, and archives.... Read more