# News Sort & Filters close ## Filters Academic Year expand\_more - 2015-16 (1) - 2016-17 (6) - 2017-18 (13) - 2018-19 (2) - 2021-22 (4) Multimedia expand\_more - Video (1) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 8 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 8 results [### Yo-Yo Ma Comes to Tunisia, with a Little Help from CMES ](/news/yo-yo-ma-comes-tunisia-little-help-cmes) May 06, 2022 When world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and his Bach Project visited Tunisia in March 2022, it was the realization of plans set in motion over two years earlier with help from members of the CMES Tunisia community. The Bach Project ( bach.yo-yoma.com)... ![Yo-Yo Ma tours Medina of Tunis with local students](/sites/g/files/omnuum9121/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/cmes-tunisia/files/bachproject-thumb.jpg?itok=qvd6N65f) [### \#After Lockdown, Very Short Stories about Enduring a Global Pandemic ](/news/after-lockdown-very-short-stories-about-enduring-global-pandemic) July 02, 2020 # After Lockdown Very Short Stories about Enduring a Global Pandemic Call for Contributions The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University , in collaboration with the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard , is... ![After Lockdown Deadline Extended](/sites/g/files/omnuum9121/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/cmes-tunisia/files/cmestn_applicationposter_afterlockdown-200701-sm2.jpg?itok=fvjCUntv) [### Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute Launches Second Annual Crossroads Emerging Leaders Program ](/news/lakshmi-mittal-south-asia-institute-launches-second-annual-crossroads-emerging) March 29, 2018 Harvard professors and alumni offer unique opportunity for first generation college students from Africa, Middle East, and South Asia. Harvard University professors will welcome 70 first-generation college students from Africa, Middle East, and South... ![South Asia Institute Crossroads 2017](/sites/g/files/omnuum9121/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/cmes-tunisia/files/sai-crossroads-2017.jpg?itok=7wSefO9G) [### Harvard Opens New International Office in Tunisia ](/news/harvard-opens-new-international-office-tunisia) January 26, 2017 Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies opened its first field office in Tunisia last Tuesday in an effort to expand Harvard’s global presence and provide resources for scholarship in the Middle East and North Africa region. Read more in the Harvard... ![38 Kirkland St, photo Matthew W. Deshaw](/sites/g/files/omnuum9121/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/cmes-tunisia/files/cmes_crimson_thumb.jpg?itok=CUqATHKf) [### Video: CMES Tunisia Office Inaugural Celebration ](/news/video-cmes-tunisia-office-inaugural-celebration) January 17, 2017 Hear opening remarks from donor Hazem Ben-Gacem AB '92, CMES Director William Granara, Margot Gill, Administrative Dean for International Affairs, Harvard University, and Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought... ![William Granara, Margot Gill, Hazem Ben-Gacem](/sites/g/files/omnuum9121/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/cmes-tunisia/files/tunisia_opening_thumb.jpg?itok=8evGHV9g) [### Traveling beyond the Classroom: J-Term Excursion to Tunisia ](/news/traveling-beyond-classroom-j-term-excursion-tunisia) February 09, 2017 Brittany Landorf, an MTS candidate at Harvard Divinity School, participated in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies' 2017 winter session study excursion to Tunisia. "The trip reminded me why I love what I study so much, and I returned to campus this... ![Bizerte Tunisia](/sites/g/files/omnuum9121/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/cmes-tunisia/files/landorf_2017.png?itok=sSNstXGu) [### Nostalgia, Memory, Place: Margaux Fitoussi on the Hara of Tunis ](/news/nostalgia-memory-place-margaux-fitoussi-hara-tunis) May 12, 2017 In summer 2016, Margaux Fitoussi, an MTS candidate at Harvard Divinity School, curated a multimedia exhibition in Tunis about the Hara, the city’s historic Jewish neighborhood, centered around a collection of photographs from the late nineteenth and early... ![Hara talk poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum9121/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/cmes-tunisia/files/hara_web_04.jpg?itok=YPQk7yBY) [### Center for Middle Eastern Studies Opens Field Office in Tunisia ](/news/center-middle-eastern-studies-opens-field-office-tunisia) January 17, 2017 The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at Harvard University today opened its first overseas office, in Tunisia, home to a tradition of learning and research that extends from Antiquity to the present. The office and the year-round programs run from... ![Winter term 2016 Tunisia](/sites/g/files/omnuum9121/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/cmes-tunisia/files/cmes_tunisia-2016_jan_04.jpg?itok=pz3qXOlW)