Friday 24 January 2025

• 17:00 - Lebanon and Syria amidst regional turmoil
  Associate Professor Joseph Bahout (Director of the Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, AUB)
  Friday Seminars

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)
  Book Talks

Friday 31 January 2025

• 17:00 - Sudan's current war: a longer view on peacemaking and prospects
  Dr Richard Barltrop (Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE Middle East Centre)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 17:00 - Rethinking Masculinity Through Men's Sexual Experiences in Tehran
  Dr Nafiseh Sharifi (University of Exeter)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Friday 7 February 2025

• 17:00 - The Axis of Resistance
  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
  Associate Professor Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  MENA Politics Seminars

Friday 14 February 2025

• 17:00 - Israeli Public Opinion, War and Prospects for Peace
  Dr Dahlia Scheindlin (Fellow, Century International & Columnist, Haaretz Newspaper)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 17:00 - Genocide in Gaza
  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
  Professor Johannes Waardenburg (IULM)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 17:00 - Women’s Religious Leadership in Morocco: A Catalyst for Mudawana Reform
  Dr Sawsene Nejjar (OSGA, University of Oxford)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Friday 28 February 2025

• 17:00 - *CANCELLED* Public opinion in Palestine since 7 October
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  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
  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
  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
  Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
  Book Talks

Friday 14 March 2025

• 17:00 - Do we really owe Arabs nothing?
  Professor Fouad Laroui (Professor of epistemology and writer)
  Friday Seminars