Events this person is hosting:

Wednesday 18 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Feminists in the eyes of God: theories and practices of queer Muslim women in Britain
  Dr Benjamin Dubrulle (Maison Française d'Oxford)
  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)

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)

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

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - Dr Hussam Hussein - The politics of water scarcity in the case of Jordan
  Registration is essential
  Dr. Hussam Hussein, Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR, Oxford Martin School Fellow in Water Diplomacy, and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Exclusion and Resistance: The Betrayal of the Afghan Peace Process
  Registration essential
  Lina Tori Jan (St. Antony’s College | Master of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its Afterlives
  Registration essential.
  Dr. Jamie Furniss, Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (Tunis)/Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series -Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf
  Dr. Manal Shehabi, Academic Visitor, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford; Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation
  Registration essential
  Dr Mattin Biglari (SOAS London)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

Friday 19 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq
  Registration essential
  Dr Michael Mason (Director of the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Climate, Colonialism, and Zionism in Palestine (1882-1948): New Historiographical Perspectives
  Dr Netta Cohen (Christ Church, Oxford University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East
  Registration essential
  Dr Christian Henderson, Assistant Professor at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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 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

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 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

Wednesday 1 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - A Match Made in Heaven: Love and Piety in Iranian Spousal Selection
  Dr. Ramina Sotoudeh, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

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

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 21 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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)

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)

Monday 23 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent
  Dr.Jillian Schwedler (Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York)

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

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)

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)

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond
  Professor Yoav di Capua (The University of Texas at Austin)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - After Gaza: The Promise and Peril of Pax Americana
  Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera)

Events this person is organising:

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

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

Friday 23 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Authoritarian or Revolutionary? Reflections on the Nature of the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Maryam Alemzadeh ((Princeton)), Siavush Randjbar-Daemi ((St Andrews))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 30 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Dalia Fahmy ((Long Island University)), Daanish Faruqi ((Duke))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - The Trajectory of the Tunisian Revolution: between Continuities and Disjunctures (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Professor Sami Zemni ((Ghent))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There
  Dr Lina Khatib ((Chatham)), Jeremy Bowen ((BBC News))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Ece Temelkuran
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 22 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Algeria and Sudan: A Late Spring or an Early Summer?
  Mohanad Hashim (BBC), Dalia Ghanem (Carnegie)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism?
  Maha Yahya ((Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre)), Maysoun Pachachi ((Film Director))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 5 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Place of Religion After the Uprisings
  Shadi Hamid (Brookings), Nadia Oweidat (University of Kansa)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

Friday 12 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Libya: Past, Present and Future
  Anas al-Gomati (Sadeq Institute), Mary Fitzgerald (King's College London)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 19 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Russia and the Arab Uprisings
  Vitaly Naumkin (Russian Academy of Sciences), Alexey Vasiliev (Russian Academy of Sciences)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Tunisia – Unfinished Revolutions (Held jointly with the British-Tunisian Society)
  Hela Ammar, Mohamed Kerrou (University of Tunis El Manar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 5 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Counter-Revolutions Vs. Counter-Marginalization Movements: (Re)Visiting the Online Tug-of-War a Decade After the Arab Spring
  Dr. Marc Owen Jones ((Hamad Bin Khalifa University)), Dr Sahar Mohamed Khamis ((University of Maryland))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture - Iran and the Arab Uprisings: Opportunity Grasped or Squandered?
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 30 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Hamid Dabashi in conversation about his new book:The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
  Hamid Dabashi ((Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

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 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - Dr Hussam Hussein - The politics of water scarcity in the case of Jordan
  Registration is essential
  Dr. Hussam Hussein, Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR, Oxford Martin School Fellow in Water Diplomacy, and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its Afterlives
  Registration essential.
  Dr. Jamie Furniss, Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (Tunis)/Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series -Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf
  Dr. Manal Shehabi, Academic Visitor, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford; Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation
  Registration essential
  Dr Mattin Biglari (SOAS London)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 19 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq
  Registration essential
  Dr Michael Mason (Director of the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Climate, Colonialism, and Zionism in Palestine (1882-1948): New Historiographical Perspectives
  Dr Netta Cohen (Christ Church, Oxford University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East
  Registration essential
  Dr Christian Henderson, Assistant Professor at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

Friday 21 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch: Islam and the Arab Revolutions
  Usaama Al-Azami (St.Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

Friday 28 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
  Dr Neil Ketchley (Associate Professor in Politics, St Antony’s College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 4 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt
  Dr Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

Friday 11 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Book Launch: Uncoupling Language and Religion: An Exploration into the Margins of Turkish Literature
  Laurent Mignon (St. Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

Friday 18 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - All Jihad Is Local: the Micro-Politics of Militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and Beyond
  Raphael Lefevre (St.Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

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

Friday 25 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty
  Joseph Sassoon (Director of the Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies and Professor of History and Political Economy at Georgetown University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 4 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Panel Discussion – The Future of Syria
  Ms Waad Alkhatib (Film Maker, For Sama)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

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

Friday 11 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Yemen’s Enduring Crisis
  TBA
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

Friday 20 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - IRAQ: The Political Economy of Institutional Decay and Government Dysfunction
  Dr Ali Allawi, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Republic of Iraq and author of The Occupation of Iraq (2007)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 27 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Clerics in the time of Tishreen: The evolution of religion-civil society relations in post-2003 Iraq
  Marsin Alshamary, Research Fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

Friday 3 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Tracing Fragments: Art, Youth and Feminist Activism in Iraqi Kurdistan
  Houzan Mahmoud, Feminist Activist, Writer, and founder of Culture Project, Isabel Käser, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern & Visiting Fellow at the Middle East Centre, LSE
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

Friday 10 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism
  Thomas Hegghammer, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 17 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Popular Mobilisation Units and their Pursuit of Power and Legitimacy within the Iraqi State
  Dr. Inna Rudolf, Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at the War Studies Department of King’s College London and Partner at the Candid Foundation.
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

• 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

Friday 24 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Cheaters Dilemma: Iraq, WMD and the path to the 2003 war
  The Chicken Farm problem: Iraqi WMD disclosures and the 2003 war
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 3 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Iraq 2018-2019: The Rule of Law: a perspective
  The Rt Hon Sir Peter Gross, Formerly Lead Judge for International Relations
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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 10 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - 'The Transformation of Iraq since the 2003 Invasion: From "The Dodgy Dossier", to Human Security, Gender, and the Nation's Future in the Face of Climate Change'
  Ibrahim al-Marashi, Associate Professor at California State University, San Marcos
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Shi‘a visions of Muslim unity in contemporary Britain
  Dr Elvire Corboz (University of Edinburgh)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 12 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - The Conflict in Syria, A Personal Story
  Dr Haytham Alhamwi (Syrian British Consortium), Dr Husam Haj Omar (University of Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 19 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch, The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism
  Copies of Toby's book will be on sale at the event at a 30% discount, £17.50 (RRP £25). Payment by card only please, we are not able to accept cash payments on this occasion.
  Dr Toby Matthiesen (Ca’ Foscari University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

Friday 13 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - CANCELLED - Jewish images of Sultanic power in the 18th and 19th centuries in Palestine, Syria and Iraq
  Professor Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

Friday 20 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Arabic Literature in a Posthuman Age
  Dr Teresa Pepe (University of Oslo, Norway)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 23 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent
  Dr.Jillian Schwedler (Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York)

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

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)

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Zanzibar's Liberation between the "Global 60s" and Local Politics
  Dr Amal Ghazal (Doha Institute, Qatar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Floating Weeds: Water Hyacinth and the Egyptian Anthropocene
  Professor Pascal Menoret (Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation (Cairo); Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Single Motherhood, Celebrities, and Popular Culture in Egypt
  Dr Hanan Hammad (Professor of History and Chair of Women & Gender Studies at Texas Christian University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - What have the Arab Uprisings done to “Contemporary Arab Thought”?
  Professor Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond
  Professor Yoav di Capua (The University of Texas at Austin)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

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)

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

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)

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

• 17:00 - The United Nations and the Question of Palestine
  Dr Adri Imseis (Queen's University)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

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

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