Monday 3 June 2024

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 17:15 - Conflict and citizenship: the challenges of Palestinian-Arabs in Israel
  Professor Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University)

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

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

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

• 17:00 - The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey
  Various Speakers
  Book Talks
• 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 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

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 17:00 - Attitudes Toward Normalization in a Conflict Context: Evidence from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  Dr Ibrahim Khatib (Doha Institute)
• 17:00 - Attitudes Toward Normalization in a Conflict Context: Evidence from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  Dr Ibrahim Khatib (Doha Institute)

Friday 16 May 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Michael Wolfson (Wolfson Design)
  Friday Seminars

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)

Friday 21 October 2022

• 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