Department: Middle East Centre
Talks:

Monday 19 January 2025

BOOK TALK: Israel: What Went Wrong?
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 19 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Omer Bartov (Brown University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 January 2025

BOOK TALK: The Fixer: A Journalist’s Accidental Journey through the Middle East
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Amjad M. Tadros (Author)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 January 2025

FILM SCREENING: COMPLICIT - How the West is Helping Israel Seize the West Bank
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 22 January 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Richard Sanders (Producer)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Saturday 24 January 2025

Remembering Bona Malwal and his Achievements in Sudan and South Sudan
Date: 24 January 2026, 10:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (The Sudanese Programme)
Host: Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (The Sudanese Programme)

Tuesday 27 January 2025

The Materiality of Cyber Commercial Sigheh: An Introduction to A Post-Paradigmatic Sex Market in Iran
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 27 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Minoo Sadat (University of Bristol)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 January 2025

The Construction of Masculinities in Popular Iranian Cinema of the 1990s
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Nacim Pak Shiraz (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 February 2025

BOOK TALK: Twelve Years Away from Constantinople, 1896 – 1908 (My Memoirs) by Yervant Odian
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Nanor Kebranian (Vienna)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Laurent Mignon (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 February 2025

Saudi Arabia and the Global Trajectory of Islamic Law
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Dominik Krell (CSLS)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Pascal Menoret (Magdalen College)

Tuesday 10 February 2025

BOOK TALK: A History of Modern Syria
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Daniel Neep (Brandeis University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 February 2025

BOOK TALK: Kingdom of Football: Saudi Arabia and the Remaking of World Soccer
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (Rice University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 February 2025

The Role of UNRWA Historical Refugee Registration Records in Documenting the Demographic Reality of the Nakba
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Valeria Cetorelli
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 February 2025

BOOK TALK: Order and Region Making in the Middle East
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Simon Mabon (Lancaster University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 February 2025

BOOK TALK: Fire in Every Direction
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Ammar Azzouz (Somerville College, University of Oxford), Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 February 2025

FILM SCREENING: The Conspiracy: Assassination in Beirut
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Dan Clifton (Independent Writer/Director), Michael Taylor (Independent Investigations/Police Consultant)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Middle East Centre
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 March 2025

BOOK TALK: Contemporary Islamist Opposition in Morocco: Resisting Inclusion and Moderation
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Alfonso Casani (Complutense University of Madrid)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Michael Willis (St Antony's College)

Thursday 5 March 2025

A keynote conversation with Saeb Eigner about 'Artists of the Middle East. 1900 to Now.'
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Saeb Eigner (Author)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 March 2025

An Autocratic Middle Class? State Dependency and Protest in the Middle East and North Africa
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 March 2025

Decolonizing Security Studies - a North African perspective
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Nizar Messari (Al Akhawayn University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Michael Willis (St Antony's College)