• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Professor Eugene Rogan (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Friday at 5pm
• Web Address: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/events/mec-seminar-list-michaelmas-term-2018
• Organising department: Middle East Centre

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))

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)