• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
• Timing: Fridays at 17.00
• Organising department: St Antony's College

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))

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))

Friday 6 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The New Populist nationalism in Saudi Arabia (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Madawi Al-Rasheed ((KCL and LSE)), Ben Hubbard ((The New York Times))

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))

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)

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))

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

• 17:00 - The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Ece Temelkuran

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)

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))

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)

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)

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)

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)

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))

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)

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))

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

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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

• 17:00 - Book launch: Islam and the Arab Revolutions
  Usaama Al-Azami (St.Antony's College)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Yemen’s Enduring Crisis
  TBA

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)

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

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

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

• 17:00 - The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism
  Thomas Hegghammer, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College

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.

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

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 17:00 - Arabic Literature in a Posthuman Age
  Dr Teresa Pepe (University of Oslo, Norway)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)