Tuesday 15 August 2023 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 01:00 - Prospects for Democracy and the Muslim Subject: Reflecting on the Raba'a Massacre Ten Years On - 2-day Online-Only Conference
  Registration essential, to receive your personal ZOOM link add your details at: https://tinyurl.com/MEC2023Aug
  TBA

Tuesday 15 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Friday 18 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Colonial subjects and the right to have rights: Algeria, 1834
  Professor Charles Kurzman (University of North Carolina)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 21 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)
  Book Talks

Friday 25 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - From the cradle to the street: family and the 1979 Revolution in Iran
  Professor Naghmeh Sohrabi (Brandeis University)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 29 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Regional dimensions of the Gaza crisis, and the Arab role in the UN Security Council
  Mouin Rabbani, Hasmik Egian
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)
  Book Talks

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)
  Book Talks

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Saving Soviet Muslims: the politics of protection at Jerusalem's General Islamic Congress of 1931
  Dr Roy Bar Sadeh (University of Manchester)

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Gaza – a war on healthcare
  Professor Nick Maynard (University of Oxford), Dr Debbie Harrington (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Rebecca Inglis (University of Oxford)
  Friday Seminars

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Defining antisemitism: what is the point?
  Please note, this Friday Seminar will be taking place on *THURSDAY* for 8th Week.
  Professor Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv University), Dr Brian Klug (Oxford)
  Friday Seminars