Middle East Centre Administrator - Oxford Talks

Middle East Centre Administrator

St Antony's College, University of Oxford

Events this person is hosting:

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
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Events this person is organising:

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 - 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

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

Thursday 27 February 2025

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 - Understanding Syria through Syrian Voices: Refugees’ Stories of Revolution, War, and the Struggle for Home
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