Events this person is hosting:

Tuesday 15 August 2023

• 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
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Events this person is organising:

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 17:15 - The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood
  Dr Ezgi Başaran (University of Oxford)
  Book Talks
• 17:15 - The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood
  Dr Ezgi Başaran (University of Oxford)
  Book Talks

Friday 18 October 2024

• 17:00 - Colonial subjects and the right to have rights: Algeria, 1834
  Professor Charles Kurzman (University of North Carolina)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Monday 21 October 2024

• 17:00 - The challenges of writing Middle East history after 7 October: from Gaza to the climate crisis
  Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University)
  Book Talks

Friday 25 October 2024

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

Tuesday 29 October 2024

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

Friday 8 November 2024

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

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 17:15 - CANCELLED: 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 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)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Friday 24 January 2025

• 17:00 - Lebanon and Syria amidst regional turmoil
  Associate Professor Joseph Bahout (Director of the Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, AUB)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 17:00 - The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey
  Professor Caroline Tee (University of Chester), Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu (UCL), Dr Stefan Williamson Fa (University of Cambridge), Associate Professor Fabio Vicini (University of Verona)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey
  Various Speakers
  Book Talks

Friday 31 January 2025

• 17:00 - Sudan's current war: a longer view on peacemaking and prospects
  Dr Richard Barltrop (Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE Middle East Centre)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 17:00 - Rethinking Masculinity Through Men's Sexual Experiences in Tehran
  Dr Nafiseh Sharifi (University of Exeter)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Friday 7 February 2025

• 17:00 - The Axis of Resistance
  Dr Kamran Matin (University of Sussex), Dr Amal Saad (Cardiff University), Yasmeen al-Eryani (Co-Executive Director, Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 17:00 - Tribal Voting in New Democracies: Evidence from 6 Million Tunisian Voter Records
  Associate Professor Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  MENA Politics Seminars

Friday 14 February 2025

• 17:00 - Israeli Public Opinion, War and Prospects for Peace
  Dr Dahlia Scheindlin (Fellow, Century International & Columnist, Haaretz Newspaper)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 17:00 - Genocide in Gaza
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)
  Book Talks

Friday 21 February 2025

• 17:00 - The chaos (fawḍà) Bashshar al-Asad warned against – Damascus University 10th November 2005 – and present-day Syria
  Professor Johannes Waardenburg (IULM)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 17:00 - Women’s Religious Leadership in Morocco: A Catalyst for Mudawana Reform
  Dr Sawsene Nejjar (OSGA, University of Oxford)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 17:00 - Attitudes Toward Normalization in a Conflict Context: Evidence from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  Dr Ibrahim Khatib (Doha Institute)
• 17:00 - Attitudes Toward Normalization in a Conflict Context: Evidence from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  Dr Ibrahim Khatib (Doha Institute)

Friday 28 February 2025

• 17:00 - *CANCELLED* Public opinion in Palestine since 7 October
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Khalil Shikaki (Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 17:00 - Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins
  Dr Max Gallien (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)
  Book Talks

Friday 7 March 2025

• 17:00 - From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics
  Dr Jerome Drevon (Senior Analyst, Crisis Group)
  Book Talks

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 17:00 - Understanding Syria through Syrian Voices: Refugees’ Stories of Revolution, War, and the Struggle for Home
  Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
  Book Talks

Friday 14 March 2025

• 17:00 - Do we really owe Arabs nothing?
  Professor Fouad Laroui (Professor of epistemology and writer)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 17:00 - East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
  Dr Erin M.B. O’Halloran (University of Cambridge)
  Book Talks

Friday 9 May 2025

• 15:00 - Toward an Inclusive Archaeological and Historical Narrative of Palestine
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 17:00 - Sacrificial Intimacies: The Value of Life, Labor, and Desire in Queer Kurdish Worlds
  Dr Emrah Karakuş (LSE)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 17:00 - After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
  Professor Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi)

Friday 16 May 2025

• 17:00 - Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
  Philip Michael Wolfson (Wolfson Design)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 17:00 - CANCELLED The World After Gaza
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Pankaj Mishra
  Book Talks

Friday 23 May 2025

• 17:00 - The Devaki Jain Lecture - Empowered voices: Jordanian women shaping their future
  Rana Husseini (author, journalist and activist)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 17:00 - Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
  Dr Haroon Bashir (Markfield Institute of Higher Education)
  Book Talks

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 17:00 - NGOization of the Palestinian civil society post-Oslo: our community-based ways out
  This will be a hybrid event with attendance in person and online. To attend online, please complete the booking form to receive the Zoom link.
  Dr Amal Nazzal (Birzeit University), Soheir Asaad (Palestinian lawyer and activist)

Friday 30 May 2025

• 17:00 - Big Tech and the Automation of Genocide in Gaza
  Dr Samer Abdelnour (University of Edinburgh Business School)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 17:00 - States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab States of the Gulf Region
  Professor Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 17:00 - Hamas unpacked: History and politics of a movement
  Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network), Professor Jeroen Gunning (King's College London)

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 17:00 - Zaha Hadid: A Life in Architecture
  Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)

Tuesday 14 October 2025

• 17:00 - Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Yoram Meital (Ben-Gurion University)
  Book Talks

Thursday 16 October 2025

• 17:00 - TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Ahmet Davutoğlu (Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Türkiye)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 17:00 - Safe Corridor
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Various Speakers
  Book Talks

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 17:00 - Sheikh Zayed Book Award
  This seminar will be delivered in Arabic with simultaneous translation to English.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Said Laouadi (Cadi Ayyad University)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 17:00 - Morocco’s Party of Justice and Development in Government: The Experience and the Future
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Mr Mustapha El Khalfi (Former Minister of Communications, Morocco)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 17:00 - TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Mr Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi (Founder, Barjeel Art Foundation)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 17:00 - Breaking New Ground on the Global Stage: Memoirs of Kuwait's First Woman Ambassador
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Ambassador Nabeela Al Mulla (Author)
  Book Talks

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 17:00 - TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 17:00 - TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė (Czech Academy of Sciences)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)