• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Fridays from 5.00pm
• Organising department: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

Friday 22 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula in the Global Cold War
  Dr Toby Matthiesen (Sir Adam Roberts Fellow in the International Relations of the Middle East)

Friday 29 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Accounts of Madrassahs post 9/11: Bearings of Recent History
  Dr Mohammad Talib (Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Fellow, Islamic Centre Lecturer in the Anthropology of Muslim Societies)

Friday 5 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - A Wall in Bulaq, An Allegory of Mubarak
  Dr Walter Armbrust (MEC Albert Hourani Fellow)

Friday 12 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Political Economy of Violence in the Middle East: What Questions Should the Social Scientist Ask?
  Dr Adeel Malik (Globe Fellow, Islamic Centre Lecturer in the Economies of Muslim Societies)

Friday 19 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Britain and Palestine: From Balfour to Blair
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow), Richard Makepeace (Registrar, OCIS)

Friday 26 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Women and the 19th-Century Emergence of the Arabic Novel
  Professor Marilyn Booth (Al Saud Professor, Magdalen College)

Friday 4 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Contemporary Challenges for Political Islam
  Professor Tariq Ramadan (Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies, Middle East Centre)

Friday 11 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Arabic before the ‘Middle East’: from the Centre to the Periphery
  Dr Michael Feener (Sultan of Oman Fellow, OCIS)