• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
• Timing: Usually 5pm on Tuesdays during Term
• Web Address: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/middle-east-centre-booktalk
• Organising department: Middle East Centre

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 17:15 - The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood
  Dr Ezgi Başaran (University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood
  Dr Ezgi Başaran (University of Oxford)

Monday 21 October 2024

• 17:00 - The challenges of writing Middle East history after 7 October: from Gaza to the climate crisis
  Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University)

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 17:15 - Tahrir, Gaza, and beyond: revolution, liberation, and praxis
  Rusha Latif (author of 'Tahrir's Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution')

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 17:15 - CANCELLED: Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Yoram Meital (Ben-Gurion University)

Friday 15 November 2024

• 17:00 - The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization
  Dr Elham Fakhro (Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School)

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 17:00 - God's Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani
  Sajad Jiyad

Friday 22 November 2024

• 17:00 - Writing Middle Eastern lives: biography in modern Arab history
  Professor Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (American University of Beirut), Professor Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford), Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University)

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 17:00 - The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey
  Professor Caroline Tee (University of Chester), Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu (UCL), Dr Stefan Williamson Fa (University of Cambridge), Associate Professor Fabio Vicini (University of Verona)
• 17:00 - The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 17:00 - Genocide in Gaza
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 17:00 - Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins
  Dr Max Gallien (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)

Friday 7 March 2025

• 17:00 - From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics
  Dr Jerome Drevon (Senior Analyst, Crisis Group)

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 17:00 - Understanding Syria through Syrian Voices: Refugees’ Stories of Revolution, War, and the Struggle for Home
  Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 17:00 - East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Erin M.B. O’Halloran (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 17:00 - The World After Gaza
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Pankaj Mishra

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 17:00 - Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Haroon Bashir (Markfield Institute of Higher Education)