Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Documentary film screening: Antoine the Fortunate (WWI in the Ottoman Empire)
  Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Nefin Dinc (James Madison University)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Tuesday 18 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Making of the Modern Middle East
  Jeremy Bowen (BBC)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Friday 21 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Resurrecting the Caliphate: The Creed of Abraham and ISIS’s Hermeneutics of Power
  Professor Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Tuesday 8 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Inside Qatar: hidden stories from the one of the richest nations on earth
  Dr John McManus (British Institute at Ankara)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Thinking beyond the Islamic state versus modern liberalism: Islamism, non-Muslims, and communitarian citizenship
  Professor Rachel Scott (Virginia Tech, USA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Friday 2 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Contesting Muslim Legal Sovereignty in Colonial India
  With sincere apologies, this event is Cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Associate Professor Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University in Qatar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Friday 28 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch - Russia and the GCC 'The Case of Tatarstan’s Paradiplomacy'
  The person who asks the best question from the audience during the audience Q&A will be gifted a copy of the book from the author
  Dr Diana Galeeva (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Israel's Covert Diplomacy in the Middle East
  Professor Elie Podeh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 12 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - The Conflict in Syria, A Personal Story
  Dr Haytham Alhamwi (Syrian British Consortium), Dr Husam Haj Omar (University of Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 19 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch, The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism
  Copies of Toby's book will be on sale at the event at a 30% discount, £17.50 (RRP £25). Payment by card only please, we are not able to accept cash payments on this occasion.
  Dr Toby Matthiesen (Ca’ Foscari University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:45 - Memorial Event: Derek Hopwood OBE, Emeritus Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies (1933-2020) & Celia Kerslake, Emeritus Fellow in Turkish (1946-2023)
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 14 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Exile and the history of Palestine: Safed and the Critique of Zionism
  Professor Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture 2023: Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective
  Copies of the book will be on sale at the event (cash only). Please aim to arrive in good time to be assured a seat.
  Emeritus Professor Avi Shlaim (University of Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

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
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University)
  Book Talks

Monday 28 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Conspiracy: Assassination in Beirut
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Michael Taylor (Independent Investigations/Police Consultant)
  Documentary Screenings

Tuesday 5 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Conflict and citizenship: the challenges of Palestinian-Arabs in Israel
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University)

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
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Mouin Rabbani, Hasmik Egian
  Friday Seminars

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

• 17:00 - Writing Middle Eastern lives: biography in modern Arab history
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (American University of Beirut), Professor Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford), Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University)
  Book Talks

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.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv University), Dr Brian Klug (Oxford)
  Friday Seminars

Friday 21 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Resurrecting the Caliphate: The Creed of Abraham and ISIS’s Hermeneutics of Power
  Professor Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022