| Reconsidering Marshall Hodgson |
Professor Edmund Burke III (UC Santa Cruz) gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. |
Edmund Burke III |
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| Book Launch: Christian Martyrs under Islam |
Dr Christian C Sahner (Associate Professor of Islamic History, Faculty of Oriental Studies), talks about his new book, the discussants are Phil Booth (Faculty of Theology) and Professor Julia Bray (Oriental Institute). |
Christian C Sahner, Phil Booth, Julia Bray |
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| Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo |
Dr Seth Anziska (Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Lecturer in Jewish-Muslim Relations, University College London), gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. |
Seth Anziska |
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| Between Love and Lineage: Elopement, Rights and Violence in an Afghan Valley |
Dr Naysan Adlparvar (Yale University), gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. |
Naysan Adlparvar |
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| Book launch: Khalil Maleki -The Human Face of Iranian Socialism |
Dr Homa Katouzian (Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow, St Antony's) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre. Chaired by Stephanie Cronin (St Antony's College). |
Homa Katouzian |
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| A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State (South Sudan) |
Zach Vertin (Princeton University) on a joint event with Sudanese Programme, African Studies Centre and the Centre for International Studies. Chaired by Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (Sudanese Programme). |
Zach Vertin |
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| Lords of the Desert: Britain’s struggle with America to dominate the Middle East |
James Barr (King's College London) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre, chaired by Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College). |
James Barr |
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| Book Event: On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements |
Jacqueline Rose (Birkbeck), Kfir Cohen (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute), Moshe Behar (The University of Manchester), Hakem Al-Rustom (Michigan), Ella Shohat (New York University) discuss at the book event. Chaired by Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College). |
Jacqueline Rose, Kfir Cohen, Moshe Behar, Hakem Al-Rustom, Ella Shohat, Eugene Rogan |
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| Workshop: Memory, Memoirs, and History part 2 |
Ella Shohat (New York University) and Avi Shlaim (St Antony's College) give the second of two workshops for the middle east centre. |
Ella Shohat, Avi Shlaim |
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| Workshop: Memory, Memoirs, and History Part 1 |
Ella Shohat (New York University) and Avi Shlaim (St Antony's College) give the first of two workshops for the middle east centre. |
Ella Shohat, Avi Shlaim |
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| The Question of Judeo-Arabic: Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary |
Ella Shohat (New York University) gives a lecture for the middle east centre, chaired by Yaacov Yadgar (Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies, St Anne's). Comments by Yuval Evri (SOAS). |
Ella Shohat, Yaacov Yadgar, Yuval Evri |
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| Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture - The Tunisian Revolution: Achievements and disillusions |
Moncef Marzouki (Former President of the Republic of Tunisia, 2011-2014) gives the annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture. |
Moncef Marzouki |
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| Women's Rights Research Seminar: Tale of two Omani women |
Deena Al Asfoor (St Catherine's College) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre. Chaired by Nazila Ghanea (Kellogg College). |
Deena Al Asfoor, Nazila Ghanea |
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| Arab Media in the New Age |
George Hawatmeh (Jordan Radio and Television Corporation) gives a public lecture on Arab media in the new age. Chaired buy Philip Robins (St Antony's College). |
George Hawatmeh |
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| Israel and Palestine: Why Britain Should Recognize the Second State |
Sir Vincent Fean KCVO, gives a talk for the Middle East Studies seminar series. |
Sir Vincent Fean |
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| Religious Freedom in Turkey |
Alexandre Toumarkine (INALCO, Paris) talks about religious freedom in Turkey. |
Alexandre Toumarkine |
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| The challenges of healthcare in Gaza |
Richard Guy (Consultant Surgeon), Omar Abdel-Mannan (Paediatrician), and Debbie Harrington (Consultant Obstetrician) talk about the challenges of healthcare in Gaza. |
Richard Guy, Omar Abdel-Mannan, Debbie Harrington |
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| Gaza: Martyrdom and Betrayal |
Norman G Finkelstein gives a talk for the Middle East Studies seminar series. |
Norman Finkelstein |
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| Women's Rights Research Seminar: Women and the Struggle for Democracy in Iran |
Mariam Memarsadeghi (Tavaana) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series. |
Mariam Memarsadeghi |
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| De Gaulle in Beirut- The Chehab Experiment, 1958-1964 |
Anne Sa'adah (Dartmouth College) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Seminar series. |
Anne Sa'adah |
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| Women's Rights Research Seminar- A Global History of the Struggle for Women’s Rights: The Women’s Movement in Istanbul in the Context of International Feminism in the Early 20th Century |
Dr Elife Bicer-Deveci, postdoctoral fellow of Swiss National Science Foundation and academic visitor at the Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College, gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series. |
Elife Bicer-Deveci |
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| The Gulf Crisis |
Madawi al-Rasheed (LSE) and Courtney Freer (LSE), give a talk for the Middle East Centre Seminar Series at St Anthony's College Oxford, chaired by Toby Matthiesen (St Anthony's College). |
Madawi al-Rasheed, Courtney Freer, Toby Matthiesen |
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| War crimes, crimes against humanity and territorial fragmentation: are peace and reconstruction possible in Syria? |
Ziad Majed discusses his research on the political situation in Syria, which is the focus of his latest publication. |
Dr Ziad Majed |
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| A View of Globalisation from its Margin: Searching for Karate’s Budo Roots in Contemporary Egypt |
Dr Hatsuki Aishima (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka) gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre seminar series. |
Hatsuki Aishima |
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| Are Algerian politics exhausted? |
Dr Hugh Roberts gives a talk for the middle east studies centre seminar series. |
Hugh Roberts |
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| What challenges does Israel face in the world today? |
Noa Landau (Editor-in-Chief at Haaretz English Edition) gives a talk for the middle east studies centre seminar series. |
Noa Landau |
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| Governing Divided Egypt |
Professor Robert Springborg (Italian Institute of International Affairs, Rome), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series. |
Robert Springborg |
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| WRRS: Dancing with Words: Subverting the Master Narrative in Saudi Women’s Literature |
Dr Basma Al Mutlaq (School of Oriental and African Studies) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series called Women's Rights Research Seminars. |
Basma Al Mutlaq |
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| Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States |
Zachary Lockman has taught modern Middle Eastern history at New York University since 1995. His most recent book is Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States (2016). |
Zachary Lockman |
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| George Antonius Memorial Lecture: The Iraq Invasion and Aftermath: Lessons for Arab World Reform |
Jeremy Greenstock is the Chairman of the strategic advisory company, Gatehouse Advisory Partners, established in September 2010, and Chairman of Lambert Energy Advisory, the oil and gas specialists, since January 2012. |
Sir Jeremy Greenstock |
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| Book Launch: Islam: The Essentials |
Professor Tariq Ramadan (St Antony's College) launches his new book; Islam: The Essentials on May 9th 2017. |
Tariq Ramadan |
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| The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation |
Dr Reza Zia-Ebrahimi (King's College London) gives a lecture on Iranian nationalis, this is a joint event with the Oxford University Iranian Society. |
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi |
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| Panel Discussion: Prospects of Iraqi Kurdistan's Independence Amid Regional Turbulences |
Hemin Hawrami (Senior Adviser to President Masoud Barzani) and Ceng Sagnic (Moshe Dayan Centre, Israel), discuss the prospect of Kurdistan independence. Chaired by Eugene Rogan (St Antony’s College). |
Hemin Hawrami, Ceng Sagnic, Eugene Rogan, Ari Aziz Mamshae |
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| Writing an Arab Officer into the 1948 War for Palestine |
Professor Laila Parsons (McGill University), gives a talk for the Middle East seminar series. Chaired by Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford). |
Laila Parsons, Eugene Rogan |
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| Tunisia |
Rory McCarthy (Magdalen College, Oxford) and Fabio Merone (Ghent University) give a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series. Chaired by Michael Willis (St Antony's College). |
Rory McCarthy, Fabio Merone, Michael Willis |
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| Free Expression in the Gulf |
Maryam al-Khawaja and Nicholas McGeehan (Middle East Researcher, Human Rights Watch) give a seminar for the MIddle East Centre. The discussant is Toby Matthiesen (St Antony's College). Chaired bt Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College). |
Maryam al-Khawaja, Nicholas McGeehan, Toby Matthiesen, Timothy Garton Ash |
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| Jews, Muslims, and Law in Nineteenth-Century Morocco |
Jessica Maya Marglin (University of Southern California) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre on 2nd March 2017. |
Jessica Maya Marglin |
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| Islam in Europe |
Part of the Middle East Centre Seminar Series, with Nilüfer Göle, Tariq Modood and Tariq Ramadan (chair). Held on 17th February 2017. |
Nilüfer Göle, Tariq Modood, Tariq Ramadan |
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| The Conflict in Libya |
Lydia Sizer (Libya Analyst MENAS), Mary Fitzgerald (Journalist and Author) and John Hamilton (Cross Border Information) discuss the conflict in Libya on 27th January 2017. |
Lydia Sizer, Mary Fitzgerald, John Hamilton |
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| The Syrian Conflict |
Raphael Lefevre (New College, Oxford) and Kevin Mazur (Nuffield College, Oxford) discuss the ongoing Syrian conflict on 20th January 2017. |
Raphael Lefevre, Kevin Mazur |
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| Book launch: Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt |
Roundtable Discussion and Launch of Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt by Hatsuki Aishima (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka) with Morgan Clarke (University of Oxford). The event will be chaired by Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford). |
Hatsuki Aishima |
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| Contemporary Challenges for Political Islam |
Lecture delivered by Professor Tariq Ramadan (Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies, Middle East Centre) on 4th March 2016 at the Middle East Centre. |
Tariq Ramadan |
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| How Syria was destroyed: The dynamics of a civil war |
Seminar on the civil war in Syria, with Dr Gilles Dorronsoro (Panthéon-Sorbonne University), Arthur Quesnay (Panthéon-Sorbonne University), Adam Baczko (Panthéon-Sorbonne University) on Monday 22nd February 2016 at the Middle East Centre. |
Gilles Dorronsoro, Arthur Quesnay, Adam Baczko |
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| Women and the 19th Century Emergence of the Arabic Novel |
Seminar presented by Professor Marilyn Booth at the Middle East Centre on 26th February 2016. |
Marilyn Booth |
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| Britain and Palestine: Balfour to Blair |
Lecture presented by Professor Avi Shlaim (Middle East Centre) and Richard Makepeace (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies) at the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College on 19th February 2016. |
Avi Shlaim, Richard Makepeace |
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| The Political Economy of Violence in the Middle East: What Questions Should the Social Scientist Ask? |
Seminar by Dr Adeel Malik (Globe Fellow, Islamic Centre Lecturer in the Economies of Muslim Societies) at the Middle East Centre, 12th February 2016. |
Adeel Malik |
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| Activism and Accountability in Contemporary Lebanon: A Quiet Revolt? |
Seminar by Habib Battah (Research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism) at The Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, 10th February 2016. |
Habib Battah |
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| The Limits of Refusal: Israel, Lebanon, and the Shadow of 1982 |
Lecture given by Dr Seth Anziska (Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL) at the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, 9th February 2016. This event was co-sponsored by the MEC and the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies. |
Seth Anziska |
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| Accounts of madrassahs post-9/11: Bearings of Recent History |
Lecture given by Dr Mohammad Talib (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies) on "Accounts of madrassahs post-9/11: Bearings of Recent History" at St Antony's College Middle East Centre on 29th January 2016. |
Mohammad Talib |
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| Beyond Uprising: Inside Egypt's Unfinished Revolution |
Lecture given by Dr HA Hellyer on "Beyond Uprising: Inside Egypt's Unfinished Revolution" at Middle East Centre, St Antony's College on 25th January 2016. |
HA Hellyer |
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| The Automobile Club of Egypt |
A Conversation with Alaa Al Aswany with Eugene Rogan at the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College on 19th January 2016. |
Alaa Al Aswany, Eugene Rogan |
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| The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula in the Global Cold War |
Dr Toby Matthiesen, Senior Research Fellow in International Relations of the Middle East, Middle East Centre, gives lecture at Middle East Centre, St Antony's College on 22nd January 2016. |
Toby Matthiesen |
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| The Islamic State, the Kurdistan Region, and the Future of Iraq |
Professor Gareth Stansfield (University of Exeter) gives a talk on Iraq, ISIS, and the Kurdish region as part ofte Middle East Centre Seminar series. |
Gareth Stansfield |
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| Is Religion Really Violent? |
Lecture given by Karen Armstrong (author of 'Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence') at St Antony's Middle East Centre on 13th November 2015. |
Karen Armstrong |
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| The creation of governments-in-waiting: the Arab Uprisings and legitimacy in the international system |
Lecture given at St Antony's Middle East Centre on Friday 20th November 2015 by Dr Glen Rangwala (Trinity College, University of Cambridge). |
Glen Rangwala |
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| Speaking Truth to Power: The BBC and the Middle East |
Lecture given at St Antony's Middle East Centre on Tuesday 17th November 2015 by Roger Hardy (former Middle East and Islamic affairs analyst with the BBC World Service). |
Roger Hardy |
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| Turkey’s Kurdish Predicament |
Lecture given at St. Antony’s Middle East Centre on Wednesday 28th October 2015, with Cengiz Candar. |
Cengiz Candar |
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| ISIS: Between Fragmentation and Unity |
Lecture given at St Antony’s Middle East Centre on Friday 6th November 2015, with Dr Alia Brahimi. |
Alia Brahimi |
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| From periphery to IRCAM: how Morocco's Berbers have come in from the cold |
Dr. Michael Peyron (Grenoble University, Retired) gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. Please note; the recoridng is cut short due to an equipment failure. |
Michael Peyron |
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| “Bled ma-fihash Yahud ma-fihash Ta'arikh" Researching and Narrating Morocco's Jewish Community |
Dr Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli (Ben Gurion University and Academic Visitor at St Antony’s gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. |
Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli |
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| The Water Crisis in Yemen: Managing Extreme Water Scarcity in the Middle East. Book Launch |
Christopher Ward (University of Exeter) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre. |
Christopher Ward |
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| Which way forward? |
A talk as part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series |
Afif Safieh |
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| Israel - Palestine: Can Europe Save the Two-State Idea |
A talk as part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series |
Alon Liel |
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| How European Governments subcontract policy on Israel/Palestine to parliamentarians,civil society and businesses |
A talk as part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series |
Phyllis Starkey |
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| Title: Why Egypt’s 2011 Uprising Has Failed to deliver on its Promise? |
A talk given as part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series |
Tarek Osman |
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