Friday 24 January 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Associate Professor Joseph Bahout (American University of Beirut)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 17:00 - The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Caroline Tee (University of Chester), Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu (UCL), Dr Stefan Williamson Fa (University of Cambridge), Associate Professor Fabio Vicini (University of Verona)
  Book Talks

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 17:15 - Losing a War of Attrition: Developing Concepts of Warfare and the Realities and Perceptions of Axis Defeat in the Mediterranean War (1940-1943)
  Richard Hammond (Brunel)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 31 January 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Richard Barltrop (Trustee, The Sudanese Programme)
  Friday Seminars

Friday 7 February 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Kamran Matin (University of Sussex), Dr Amal Saad (Cardiff University), Yasmeen al-Eryani (Co-Executive Director, Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 17:00 - Tribal Voting in New Democracies: Evidence from 6 Million Tunisian Voter Records
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Associate Professor Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  MENA Politics Seminars

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 17:15 - Trading during War. The Baltic in Europe, ca 1550-1850
  Cathleen Sarti (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 14 February 2025

• 17:00 - Israeli Public Opinion, War and Prospects for Peace
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Dahlia Scheindlin (Fellow, Century International & Columnist, Haaretz Newspaper)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 17:00 - Genocide in Gaza
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)
  Book Talks

Friday 21 February 2025

• 17:00 - The chaos (fawḍà) Bashshar al-Asad warned against – Damascus University 10th November 2005 – and present-day Syria
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Johannes Waardenburg (IULM)
  Friday Seminars

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 17:15 - What was Grand Strategy in World War II—a look at the US policy of "Germany First"
  Philips Payson O'Brien (St Andrews)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 28 February 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Khalil Shikaki (Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 17:00 - Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Max Gallien (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)
  Book Talks

Friday 7 March 2025

• 17:00 - From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Jerome Drevon (Senior Analyst, Crisis Group)
  Book Talks

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 17:00 - The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
  Book Talks

Friday 14 March 2025

• 17:00 - Do we really owe Arabs nothing?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Fouad Laroui (Professor of epistemology and writer)
  Friday Seminars

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 17:00 - Cyril Foster Lecture 2025:
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Christine Ahn (Women Cross DMZ), Dan Leaf (former United States Air Force officer)