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

Friday 22 January 2016

• 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

• 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

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

Friday 12 February 2016

• 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

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

Friday 26 February 2016

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

Friday 4 March 2016

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

Friday 11 March 2016

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