Tuesday 15 August 2023

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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
  Various Speakers
  Book Talks
• 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

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

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

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