Monday 23 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics
  Professor Joseph Sassoon (Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University)

Wednesday 16 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: The New Turkey and its Discontents
  A drinks reception will follow the talk
  Emre Caliskan (St Antony's College, Oxford), Simon A. Waldman (King’s College London)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Friday 13 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Israel under Siege: The politics of Insecurity and the Rise of the Israeli Neo-Revisionist Right
  Raffaella Del Sarto (SAIS)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 20 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle between Faith and Reason
  Christopher de Bellaigue
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 3 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Governing Divided Egypt
  Robert Springborg (King's College, London)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Martial Arts in the Middle East
  Hatsuki Aishima (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State
  Helen Lackner (London Middle East Institute)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Are Algerian politics exhausted?
  Hugh Roberts (Tufts University)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 1 December 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The policy implications of President Rouhani 's second term
  Roham Alvandi (LSE), Amir Paivar (BBC)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Lecture: Arab Media in the New Age
  George Hawatmeh ((Jordan Radio and Television Corporation))

Thursday 3 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Film screening: Nasser's Republic, The making of Modern Egypt
  Michal Goldman (Director)

Friday 11 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Film screening: 1948
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow), Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Friday 18 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Film Screening: Through Ottoman Eyes
  Umran Safter (Director)

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar: The Archaeology of Experience of Domestic Violence against women in Iran
  Shahla Tizro (York St John University)

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar: Tale of two Omani women
  Deena Al Asfoor (St Catherine's College)

Thursday 7 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture
  Moncef Marzouki (Former President of Tunisia)

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Lecture-The Question of Judeo-Arabic: Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary
  Ella Shohat (New York University)
• 17:00 - Book Event: On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements
  Ella Shohat (New York University)

Thursday 14 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Workshop: Memory, Memoirs, and History
  Ella Shohat (New York University), Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Lords of the Desert: Britain’s struggle with America to dominate the Middle East
  James Barr ((King's College London))
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch: Khalil Maleki -The Human Face of Iranian Socialism
  Homa Katouzian (Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow, St Antony's)

Wednesday 24 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar- Between Love and Lineage: Elopement, Rights and Violence in an Afghan Valley
  Naysan Adlparvar (Yale University)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Preventing Palestine: A political history from Camp David to Oslo
  Seth Anziska (Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Lecturer in Jewish-Muslim Relations, University College London)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Christian Martyrs under Islam
  Christian C. Sahner (Associate Professor of Islamic History, Faculty of Oriental Studies)

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Iraq after the elections: A new beginning? (Panel discussion)
  Renad Mansour (Chatham House), Harith Hasan (Central European University), Hayder al-Khoei (University of Exeter)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Film screening and book discussion - Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid
  Ali Mirsepassi (Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Between Conservatism and Pragmatism: Crafting a human rights-based approach to HIV/AIDS related services for women in the Middle East
  Dr Kamiar Alaei (Co-president, Institute for International Health and Education)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - And then God created the Middle East and said let there be breaking news
  Karl Sharro (Architect, satirist and Middle East commentator)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The future of Israel, its Arab minority and implication for Palestine
  Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera/St Antony's College)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Sheikh Zayed Book Award: Contemporary Arab Fiction - Event cancelled
  Khalil Sweileh, Abdel Rasheed Mahmoudi

Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Exhibition and Panel Discussion: The Palestinian History Tapestry
  Shelagh Weir (Former Curator, British Museum), Jan.Lady Chalmers (Palestinian History Tapestry), Doaa Hammoudeh (St Antony’s College), Karl Sabbagh (Documentary maker and writer)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Israel Studies Seminar - When Climate Takes Command: Jewish-Zionist Scientific Approaches to Climate in Palestine
  Ms. Netta Cohen ((Oxford))
  Israel Studies Seminar series Hilary Term 2019

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Applying shari'a in modern times: Some reflections from 19th century Egypt
  Khaled Fahmy (Cambridge University)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - The Middle East: Should We Give Up?
  Joost Hiltermann (International Crisis Group)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Seminar - The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat
  Relli Shechter (St Antony’s College)

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - European policy on the Middle East: Making a difference?
  Nick Westcott (Director, Royal African Society)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - The Iraq War Inquiry: a study in contemporary political, diplomatic, military and reconstruction history
  Sir John Chilcot
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Friday 15 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - title tbc
  Abbas Kadhim (Atlantic Council)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Wednesday 20 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar - From Kurdistan to Europe: Kurdish Literary, Artistic and Cultural Activism by Kurdish Women Intellectuals
  Dr Özlem Belçim Galip (Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Struggles for Justice during the Arab Uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia
  Heba Morayef (Amnesty International)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Seminar - Revolution in Iran 1978-1979: Assessments and Reassessments upon the Fortieth Anniversary
  Touraj Atabaki (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam), Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford), Siavush Ranjbar Daemi (University of St Andrews)

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Lebanon and the twenty-first century: populism, neoliberalism, and their discontents
  Andrew Arsan (University of Cambridge)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Seminar: Iran and sanctions
  Zep Kalb (UCLA), James Landale (BBC)

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Inside Tunisia’s al-Nahda: Between Politics and Preaching
  Rory McCarthy (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Trafficking and slavery under ISIS: Trauma and rehabilitation of Yezidi female survivors
  Behnaz Hosseini (University of Vienna)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Film screening: The Eastern
  TBA
• 17:00 - Situating the Study of Islam in Global Intellectual History: Toshihiko Izutsu's Middle-Earth
  TBA

Saturday 25 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Workshop -Neither Near Nor Far: Encounters and Exchanges between Japan and the Middle East
  TBA

Friday 31 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture: The 1953 Roots of 1979
  Ervand Abrahamian

Wednesday 5 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Women's Football and Futsal in Iran - their challenges and struggles
  Tomoko Yamagishi (St Antony's College)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar

Friday 14 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Lecture and Book Launch- The politics of family law reform in Jordan and Morocco: Two seemingly similar monarchies, two different approaches
  Dr Dörthe Engelcke (Max Planck Institute, Hamburg)

Thursday 20 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - George Antonius Memorial Lecture
  Dr Saeb Erekat (Palestine Liberation Organization Negotiation Affairs Department)

Friday 18 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution
  Dr Walter Armbrust (MEC Albert Hourani Fellow)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch - Palestinian Refugees in International Law | Middle East Centre and Refugee Studies Centre event
  Lex Takkenberg ((Former chief of the Ethics Office at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)), Francesca Albanese ((The Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM),Georgetown University))
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch - “Deep States and Deep Troubles in the MENA,” Palestinian multilingualism: A perfectly normal adaptation to colonialism, conflict and late capitalism
  Professor Robert Springborg ((Kings College London))

Friday 16 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Dictatorship Syndrome (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Alaa Al Aswany

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Challenging the Limited View - The Case of the Women in Mosques Movement (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Dr Yildirim
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Apocalymbo: Trickster Politics in the Age of the Pandemic (and Other Crises) (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Dr Walter Armbrust (MEC Albert Hourani Fellow)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Qatari Women and the Labour Market- Towards an Empowering Alternative
  Dr. Mawahib Abubakr (Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Arab and the Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond
  Bashir Bashir (Open University of Israel), Leila Farsakh (University of Massachusetts Boston), Amal Ghazal (Simon Fraser University), Brian Klug (Universiy of Oxford), Hadeel Abu Hussein (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 24 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Debating the Law, Creating Gender
  Professor Irene Schneider ((Georg-August-Universität Göttingen))
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 12 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Women's Rights on The Altar of a Strategic Stake: The New Population Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
  Professor Marie Ladier-Fouladi ((CNRS)/CETOBaC)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Friday 21 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - War on Bodies: Moral Immunity and the Psychopolitics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran
  Dr Orkideh Behrouzan (SOAS University of London), Dr Maziyar Ghiabi (Wellcome Trust Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)

Saturday 22 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Sudanese Programme - Youth, Inclusivity and Participation in Politics, the Economy and Society
  Various Speakers

Thursday 27 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:00 - Oxford Syria Society Event with Dr. Sami Moubayed and Dr. Eugene Rogan: On the Syrian National Congress of 1919
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 2 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Negotiating Respectability between the Space of the Prison and the Place of Woman, Egypt 1946-1965.
  Dr Hannah Elsisi (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge)

Monday 11 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives - Opening session
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Cyrus Schayegh, Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford)
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Friday 15 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East
  Various Speakers

Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Transnationalism in the Middle East
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Marral Shamshiri-Fard, Jeremy Randall, Fadi Kafeety, Dr Toby Matthiesen (LSE), Golnar Nikpour
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Monday 25 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - A Global Palestine
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Sune Haugbolle, Pelle Valentin Olsen, Sorcha Thomson, Ilan Pappé
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Monday 1 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Maoism in the Middle East and North Africa
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Jiayi Zhu, William Figueroa, Leonard Michael, Idriss Jebari, Afshin Matin-Asgari
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Monday 8 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Late Pahlavi Iran
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Ali Mirsepassi, Arash Azizi, Siavush Ranjbar Daemi, Edmund Herzig
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Wednesday 10 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy?
  Registration essential
  Youssef Cherif (Director, Columbia Global Centers|Tunis), Dr Anne Wolf (Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford)

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Lebanon
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Nathaniel George, Yvonne Albers, Zeina Maasri, Fadi Bardawil
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Social Change through Presence: White Marriage in Iran
  Dr Maral Sahebjame (Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Washington)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - The Developmental State
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Touraj Atabaki, Max Ajl, Philip Marfleet, Cyrus Schayegh
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Thursday 25 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Afghanistan and the Middle East
  Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University), Kate Clark (Journalist)

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Gender in the Global Middle East and North Africa
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Faika Çelik, Aliye Gamze Sarıtunalı, Amy Kallander, Hannah Elsisi Ashmawi, Laleh Khalili
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Wednesday 12 January 2022 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Caliphate
  Hüseyin Yilmaz (George Mason University), Elizabeth Alexandrin (University of Manitoba)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme

Wednesday 26 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Religion
  Madawi al-Rasheed (LSE), Pascal Menoret (Brandeis University)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme

Wednesday 2 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Informal Unions in MENASA: A New Form of Cohabitation?
  Janet Afary (Mellichamp Chair, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California Santa Barbara), Roger Friedland (Dept of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Sovereignty
  Neguin Yavari (University of Leipzig), Samy Ayoub (University of Texas-Austin)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme

Wednesday 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - A New Cold War in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)?
  Dr Guy Burton (Adjunct Professor, Brussels School of Governance), Dr Christopher M. Davidson (Associate fellow, RUSI), Dr Diana Galeeva (Academic Visitor to St. Antony’s College, Oxford University), Dr Michael Willis (St. Antony's College, Oxford University)

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Violence
  Murad Idris (University of Michigan), Nesrine Badawi (American University in Cairo)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 17:00 - Threatened motherhood in the Israeli welfare state: The discourse and the practice behind the disqualification of disadvantaged women's motherhood
  Prof. Esther Hertzog (Social Anthropologist, Zefat Academic College)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - (Film showing) 'Lebanon. Explosion of Anger' film by Krzysztof Dzięciołowski
  Michael Willis (St. Antony's College), Raphaël Lefèvre (Department of Politics and International Relations), Krzysztof Dzięciołowski

Wednesday 9 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Law
  Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme

Wednesday 27 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 1 - EMPIRE
  Janet O’Brien, The Courtauld, Azfar Moin, University of Texas-Austin

Friday 29 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - BOOK LAUNCH 'Algiers’ lynching, 1956. A social history of colonial racism'
  Andrea Brazzoduro (MFO/Turin), James McDougall (Trinity)

Tuesday 3 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Bride: An Illustrated History of Palestine, 1850-1948
  Roger Hardy (Former Middle East analyst with the BBC World Service)

Wednesday 11 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - HYBRID EVENT - The Right to Move: Gender and Space in Iranian Cinema
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 24 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Ambiguities of Kurdish “Nationalism”
  Dr. Djene Rhys Bajalan

Wednesday 25 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 2 - ARAB SPRING
  Maria Malmström, Lund University, Usaama al-Azami, University of Oxford

Friday 3 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Potential Impact of European Aids on National Curriculum in Emerging Entities Under and Post-Conflicts: Palestine As a Case
  Haya Fayyad Abu Hussein (Birzeit University/ Palestine)

Wednesday 15 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 3 - RELIGION
  Rushain Abbasi, Stanford University, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern University

Thursday 16 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - *Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture* - The Enduring Legacy of Oslo
  Diana Buttu (IMEU Communications Director, DAWN Fellow)

Wednesday 22 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - CANCELLED - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 4 - MARXISM
  Fadi Bardawil, Duke University, Nadia Bou Ali, American University of Beirut

Tuesday 11 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Iran Protests: A Panel Discussion
  Walking vigil 3pm from Bonn Square to St Antony’s College directly preceding this event.
  Edmund Herzig (Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies), Maryam Alemzadeh (Associate Professor in History and Politics of Iran), Zuzanna Olszewska (Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East)

Friday 14 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism
  Professor Mohammad Khalil (Michigan State University, USA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Tuesday 18 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Making of the Modern Middle East
  Jeremy Bowen (BBC)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Wednesday 19 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Oxford Political Though Seminar: Dissent
  This series is online only, registration essential to receive your personal ZOOM link https://tinyurl.com/ywpewudw
  Professor Valerie Hoffman (University of Illinois)
  Political Thought

Friday 21 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Resurrecting the Caliphate: The Creed of Abraham and ISIS’s Hermeneutics of Power
  Professor Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Tuesday 25 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - All Necessary Measures? The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya
  No registration needed; just turn up; all welcome
  Ian (Martin)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Wednesday 26 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Online Book Launch: In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the 20th-Century Middle East
  This event is online
  Dr Aaron Rock-Singer (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Friday 28 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The struggle for Salafism in Egypt’s post-revolutionary period
  Stéphane Lacroix (Sciences Po, Paris, France)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Tuesday 1 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Yemen, poverty and conflict
  Helen Lackner (SOAS, University of London)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Friday 4 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The International Thought of Turkish Islamists: History, Civilization and Nation
  Associate Professor Katerina Dalacoura (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Saturday 5 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - The Sudanese Programme 1-Day Conference: Ecological Impacts of Proposed Jonglei Canal, National Identity Crisis, Communal Conflicts and the Peace in South Sudan
  This is a hybrid event, please join us in person if you can. Otherwise you can link in through ZOOM. To receive your personal ZOOM link please visit our website and register through there, https://www.sudaneseprogramme.org
  David S. Bassiouni (The Bassiouni Group), Abraham A. Awolich (People’s Coalition for Civil Actions), Laura Nunu Numirano (Medical Director and Researcher in Health Education), Rachel Ayrton (University of Birmingham), Tag Elkhazin (Carleton University), Yien Matthew Chol (Linguist, Literati and Human Rights Activist), Rita M. Lopidia (Eve Organization for Women Development, South Sudan and Uganda)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 8 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Inside Qatar: hidden stories from the one of the richest nations on earth
  Dr John McManus (British Institute at Ankara)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Friday 11 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Reception of Sayyid Qutb’s Controversial Ideas Among Jordanian Muslim Brothers
  Professor Joas Wagemakers (Utrecht University & Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies (NISIS))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Tuesday 15 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Deserts Are Not Empty
  3 of the 4 guest speakers joining online - 1 will join us in the lecture theatre. Audience will gather in the lecture theatre.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dala Musaed Alsayer (Kuwait University), Samia Henni (Cornell University), Menna Agha (Carelton University), Ariella Aisha Azoulay (Brown University)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Thinking beyond the Islamic state versus modern liberalism: Islamism, non-Muslims, and communitarian citizenship
  Professor Rachel Scott (Virginia Tech, USA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Tuesday 22 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective
  Hicham Alaoui (Hicham Alaoui Foundation)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Friday 25 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Shi‘i visions of Muslim unity in contemporary Britain
  Cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Elvire Corboz (University of Edinburgh)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Tuesday 29 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture: Centres, Peripheries and New Histories of the Left in Iran
  Rasmus Christian Elling (University of Copenhagen)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Wednesday 30 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Secularity
  This is an online ZOOM webinar, please register through the Middle East Centre events webpages to receive your personal ZOOM link
  Provost Professor Winnifred Fallers Sullivan (Indiana University Bloomington), Professor Armando Salvatore (McGill University)
  Political Thought

Friday 2 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Contesting Muslim Legal Sovereignty in Colonial India
  With sincere apologies, this event is Cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Associate Professor Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University in Qatar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Tuesday 17 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Empty Cradles: Israel’s Disappeared Children
  Dr James Eastwood (Queen Mary)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023

Tuesday 24 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Invisible Settles: Resettling Palestinian Collaborators in Israel
  Prof. Menachem Hofnung (Hebrew University)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - CANCELLED - The Republic of South Sudan: Coming out of the Peace Process and the Path to Economic Development
  His Excellency Honourable Minister Puot Kang Chol, Minister of Petroleum for the Republic of South Sudan

Tuesday 31 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Power/knowledge
  Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown), Ovamir Anjum (Toledo)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 17:00 - Book Launch Algeria: Politics and Society from the Dark Decade to the Hirak
  Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Tuesday 7 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - The Fusion of Zionism and Science: The First Two Decades—And the Present Day?
  Professor Amos Morris- Reich (Tel Aviv)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023

Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Ottomans
  Helen Pfeifer (Cambridge), Andrew Hammond (Oxford)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme

Tuesday 14 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Political Fairy Tale: The Case of Little Red Riding Hood in Palestine
  Loaay Wattad (Tel Aviv)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023

Monday 20 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC & OSGA present - Women, Protests, Revolutions: Iran Uprising after Five Months.
  Dr. Sahar Maranlou. Lecturer in Law and Socio- Legal Studies. Essex School of Law, Dr. Naghmeh Sohrabi. Charles (Corky) Goodman professor of Middle East History and the Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, Dr. Pardis Asadi Zeidabadi. Researcher and Visiting Lecturer at City, University of London
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Tuesday 21 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Israel Supreme Court Religion and the Relationship of State and Religion in Israel
  Professor Anat Scolnicov (Winchester)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 17:00 - Book Launch “Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism”
  Steffen Hertog (Associate professor of comparative politics, Department of Government, LSE)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Constitutionalism
  Gianluca Parolin (Aga Khan University), Jocelyne Cesari (Harvard)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme

Tuesday 28 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Rituals of Loyalty: When Israeli Journalists Face Digital Hate
  Ayala Panievsky (Cambridge)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023

Tuesday 7 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Settler Colonial Studies, Secessions of Colonialism, and Ethnonationalism: An Edward Saidian Consideration?
  Dr Moshe Behar (Manchester)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Politics
  Hussein Omar (University College Dublin), Susanna Ferguson (Smith College)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme

Friday 28 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch - Russia and the GCC 'The Case of Tatarstan’s Paradiplomacy'
  The person who asks the best question from the audience during the audience Q&A will be gifted a copy of the book from the author
  Dr Diana Galeeva (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Israel's Covert Diplomacy in the Middle East
  Professor Elie Podeh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Palestinian Women on Demonic Grounds? When Gender is Undone by the German Security Discourse
  Dr Sultan Doughan (University of London), Dr Sultan Doughan (University of London)
  Women's Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 17 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought - Revolution
  Please register online at https://tinyurl.com/38rwa4ba or through our Centre webpage https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/events/oxford-political-thought-seminar-revolution to receive your personal ZOOM link.
  Professor Roxanne Euben (University of Pennsylvania), Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
  Political Thought

Tuesday 30 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Women’s movements and citizenship in the Middle East
  Dr Roel Meijer (Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands), Professor Marilyn Booth (Discussant) (University of Oxford)
  Women's Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:45 - Memorial Event: Derek Hopwood OBE, Emeritus Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies (1933-2020) & Celia Kerslake, Emeritus Fellow in Turkish (1946-2023)
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 14 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Oxford Political Though - Heresy
  Registration essential to receive your personal ZOOM link
  Teena Purohit (Boston University), Zaki Rehman (University of Oxford)
  Political Thought

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture 2023: Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective
  Copies of the book will be on sale at the event (cash only). Please aim to arrive in good time to be assured a seat.
  Emeritus Professor Avi Shlaim (University of Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 August 2023 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 01:00 - Prospects for Democracy and the Muslim Subject: Reflecting on the Raba'a Massacre Ten Years On - 2-day Online-Only Conference
  Registration essential, to receive your personal ZOOM link add your details at: https://tinyurl.com/MEC2023Aug
  TBA

Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
  Nathan Thrall (Author and Journalist)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Tuesday 17 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Stories to Connect: The Reza Hosseini Memorial Lecture Series on the past and present of the Middle East
  Ghassan Salamé (Professor of International Relations at Sciences-Po)

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - WRRS AND MENA POLITICS JOINT EVENT - Women and electoral politics in Iran and Turkey: Undemocratic structures and feminist resistance
  Mona Tajali, Associate Professor (Agnes Scott College)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Friday 27 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The World is not a Place of Dwelling: Spiritual Creativity in the Arts of Contemporary Islam
  Professor Noah Saloman (Irfan and Noreen Galaria Research Chair and Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Saturday 28 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Rethinking Colonialism: The Southern Sudanese Liberation Struggle and the Challenge to Decolonisation
  Dr Yaniv Voller (School of Politics and International Relations, Keynes College, University of Kent), Dr Richard Barltrop (Trustee, The Sudanese Programme), Mr Elhag Paul (Journalist and Activist)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Sheikh Zayed Book Award Lecture Identity and history: The story of Ibn Tulun's demolished City
  Reem Bassiouney (The American University of Cairo)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - CANCELLED DUE TO TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS - ‘Colonizing Palestine: the Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba’
  TBA
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Deviant women: citizenship, political participation, and incarceration of the secular left in post-revolutionary Iran (1979-1990)
  Rosa Rahimi (University of Oxford, Magdalene College)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Monday 27 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Modern Arab Kingship – Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East
  Adam Mestyan (Duke University)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Monday 15 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Considering the Political Options in Gaza After Three Months of War
  Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College), Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford), Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Monday 22 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Israeli Public Opinion and Political Options after 7 October
  Professor Yuli Tamir (Beit Berl College)

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Film Screening and Discussion: SPACES OF EXCEPTION dir. Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, 2019 United States/Lebanon
  Malek Rasamny (Documentary Filmmaker)

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Settler Movement, Political Impasses, and Beyond
  Prof Hagar Kotef (SOAS University of London)

Monday 5 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Genocide and Accountability in Gaza: The Limits and Potential of International Law
  Prof Noura Erakat (Rutgers)

Saturday 10 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Sudanese Diaspora: Their Role in Sudan and South Sudan
  Professor Munzoul Abdalla Assal (Bergen University), Dr Eva Khair (University of Cambridge), Dr Salma Abdalla (Raad Peace Research Institute, Amman, Jordan), Iman Federico Awi (University of Leeds), Cllr Muna Adam (Labour Councillor for Royal Borough of Chelsea and Kensington, London; & Founder & Director of Shaman PR), Mr Elhag Paul (Activist, Journalist and Trustee, The Sudanese Programme), Ms Abiol Lual Deng (Political Scientist and International Relations expert), Mr Hashim Mohammed Ahmed (Civil Engineering Consultant; President of the Sudanese Engineers Trade Union in the UK & Ireland), Nadia Awad (Reporter, Radio Dabanga)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC X ESC Panel Discussion: The Debate on Recognition of Palestine
  Chris Doyle (CAABU), Alon Liel (Policy Working Group), Haizam Amirah Fernández (Elcano Royal Institute)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Tuesday 13 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Gender Effect in Intra-Party Meritocracy (with Rabia Kutlu).
  Dr Tugba Bozcaga (EIS)
  JOINT Middle East Politics & Women's Rights Research Seminar

Monday 19 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Is a Binational State Possible After 7 October?
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow), Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter)

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Rebuilding From the Rubble Yet Again: Whither the Fourth Phase of Palestinian Collective Action?
  Prof Beshara Doumani (Brown University)

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Colonizing Palestine: the Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba’
  Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Webs of oppression’ in everyday organizing in Palestine: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis
  Lunch will be provided for this session
  Amal W Nazzal (Assistant Professor at Birzeit University, Palestine)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - After Gaza: The Promise and Peril of Pax Americana
  Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera)

Tuesday 5 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC BOOK TALK - Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt
  Prof. Atef Said (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The United Nations and the Question of Palestine
  Dr. Ardi Imseis (Cambridge Centre for Palestine Studies)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Reflections on Tunisian Women’s Continued Fight for Respect, Dignity and Rights
  Dr Heba El-Shazli (George Mason University)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Damascus Events Book Launch
  Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The transformation of the Ottoman-Iranian boundaries at the “Idea of Iran” symposium
  Prof Sabri Ates (Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Ali Mirsepassi will be in conversation with Stephanie Cronin about his new book "The Loneliest Revolution: A Mamoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran".
  Ali Mirsepassi (NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Screening the documentary film “Antoine the Fortunate” at Oxford
  TBA
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Antonius Lecture
  Professor Amaney Jamal (Princeton University)

Friday 14 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch
  Professor Janet Afray (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES