• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Fridays at 5.00 pm.
• Organising department: Middle East Centre

Friday 13 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Israel under Siege: The politics of Insecurity and the Rise of the Israeli Neo-Revisionist Right
  Raffaella Del Sarto (SAIS)

Friday 20 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle between Faith and Reason
  Christopher de Bellaigue

Friday 3 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Governing Divided Egypt
  Robert Springborg (King's College, London)

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Martial Arts in the Middle East
  Hatsuki Aishima (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State
  Helen Lackner (London Middle East Institute)

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Are Algerian politics exhausted?
  Hugh Roberts (Tufts University)

Friday 1 December 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The policy implications of President Rouhani 's second term
  Roham Alvandi (LSE), Amir Paivar (BBC)

Saturday 5 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - The Sudanese Programme 1-Day Conference: Ecological Impacts of Proposed Jonglei Canal, National Identity Crisis, Communal Conflicts and the Peace in South Sudan
  This is a hybrid event, please join us in person if you can. Otherwise you can link in through ZOOM. To receive your personal ZOOM link please visit our website and register through there, https://www.sudaneseprogramme.org
  David S. Bassiouni (The Bassiouni Group), Abraham A. Awolich (People’s Coalition for Civil Actions), Laura Nunu Numirano (Medical Director and Researcher in Health Education), Rachel Ayrton (University of Birmingham), Tag Elkhazin (Carleton University), Yien Matthew Chol (Linguist, Literati and Human Rights Activist), Rita M. Lopidia (Eve Organization for Women Development, South Sudan and Uganda)

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)

Wednesday 14 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Exile and the history of Palestine: Safed and the Critique of Zionism
  Professor Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben Gurion University, Israel)

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture 2023: Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective
  Copies of the book will be on sale at the event (cash only). Please aim to arrive in good time to be assured a seat.
  Emeritus Professor Avi Shlaim (University of Oxford)

Saturday 28 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Rethinking Colonialism: The Southern Sudanese Liberation Struggle and the Challenge to Decolonisation
  Dr Yaniv Voller (School of Politics and International Relations, Keynes College, University of Kent), Dr Richard Barltrop (Trustee, The Sudanese Programme), Mr Elhag Paul (Journalist and Activist)

Saturday 10 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Sudanese Diaspora: Their Role in Sudan and South Sudan
  Professor Munzoul Abdalla Assal (Bergen University), Dr Eva Khair (University of Cambridge), Dr Salma Abdalla (Raad Peace Research Institute, Amman, Jordan), Iman Federico Awi (University of Leeds), Cllr Muna Adam (Labour Councillor for Royal Borough of Chelsea and Kensington, London; & Founder & Director of Shaman PR), Mr Elhag Paul (Activist, Journalist and Trustee, The Sudanese Programme), Ms Abiol Lual Deng (Political Scientist and International Relations expert), Mr Hashim Mohammed Ahmed (Civil Engineering Consultant; President of the Sudanese Engineers Trade Union in the UK & Ireland), Nadia Awad (Reporter, Radio Dabanga)