Friday 25 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - From the cradle to the street: family and the 1979 Revolution in Iran
  Professor Naghmeh Sohrabi (Brandeis University)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 29 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Tahrir, Gaza, and beyond: revolution, liberation, and praxis
  Rusha Latif (author of 'Tahrir's Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution')
  Book Talks

Saturday 2 November 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - South Sudan at the Crossroads, Election or No Election – What is the Prospect for Real Peace for South Sudan
  Please aim to register before 25th October 2024, as this helps greatly with planning for the day's catering and hospitality which are provided by St Antony's College.
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 5 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Conflict and citizenship: the challenges of Palestinian-Arabs in Israel
  Professor Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University)

Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Regional dimensions of the Gaza crisis, and the Arab role in the UN Security Council
  Mouin Rabbani, Hasmik Egian
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Yoram Meital (Ben-Gurion University)
  Book Talks

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization
  Dr Elham Fakhro (Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School)
  Book Talks

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - God's Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani
  Sajad Jiyad
  Book Talks

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Writing Middle Eastern lives: biography in modern Arab history
  Professor Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (American University of Beirut), Professor Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford), Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University)
  Book Talks

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Saving Soviet Muslims: the politics of protection at Jerusalem's General Islamic Congress of 1931
  Dr Roy Bar Sadeh (University of Manchester)

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Gaza – a war on healthcare
  Professor Nick Maynard (University of Oxford), Dr Debbie Harrington (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Rebecca Ingliss (University of Oxford)
  Friday Seminars

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Defining antisemitism: what is the point?
  Please note, this Friday Seminar will be taking place on *THURSDAY* for 8th Week.
  Professor Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv University), Dr Brian Klug (Oxford)
  Friday Seminars