Professor Roy Mottahedeh shares with the Alwaleed Program team how he entered the field of Islamic studies as an undergraduate at Harvard in the late 1950s and his development and career as a historian.
On March 28, 2019, Harvard's own Professor Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Research Professor of History, presented his new philological research on terms for city and countryside in medieval Arabic-Persian dictionaries for the Alwaleed bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies. This lecture was co-sponsored and hosted by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
On October 24, 2017, The Ash Center for Democratic Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School and The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program co-sponsored a cross-disciplinary panel discussion on the intersection of Islam and democracy across the Muslim world as part of Worldwide Week at Harvard. Convened by Professor Tarek Masoud, the panel of experts...
