Thursday 18 January 2018

• 13:00 - A History of Algeria
  Various Speakers
  Book at Lunchtime

Friday 27 April 2018

• 17:00 - Film screening: Disturbing the Peace
  Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Friday 11 May 2018

• 17:00 - Film screening: 1948
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow), Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Thursday 27 May 2021

• 19:00 - Oxford Syria Society Event with Dr. Sami Moubayed and Dr. Eugene Rogan: On the Syrian National Congress of 1919
  Various Speakers

Monday 15 January 2024

• 17:00 - Considering the Political Options in Gaza After Three Months of War
  Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College), Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford), Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 17:00 - The Damascus Events Book Launch
  Book copies will be on sale at the discounted price of £20 - cash only please | Drinks reception will follow the book signing
  Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Tuesday 15 January 2019

• 14:15 - Israel Studies Seminar - When Climate Takes Command: Jewish-Zionist Scientific Approaches to Climate in Palestine
  Ms. Netta Cohen ((Oxford))
  Israel Studies Seminar series Hilary Term 2019

Tuesday 29 January 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Seminar - The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat
  Relli Shechter (St Antony’s College)

Tuesday 5 February 2019

• 14:15 - Israel Studies Seminar - Abbas Leadership in a State Postponed
  Professor Menachem Klein (Bar-Ilan)
  Israel Studies Seminar series Hilary Term 2019

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 14:15 - Israel Studies Seminar - Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1947
  Professor Guy Burton (Vesalius College)
  Israel Studies Seminar series Hilary Term 2019
• 17:00 - MEC Seminar: Disputes on Alcohol in The Middle East
  Elife Biçer-Deveci (St Antony’s College), Philippe Bourmaud (Jean Moulin University Lyon 3), Nicolas Elias (French School at Athens)

Tuesday 19 February 2019

• 14:15 - Israel Studies Seminar - The emerging notion of sovereignty in contemporary Israel
  Professor Eyal Chowers (Tel-Aviv)
  Israel Studies Seminar series Hilary Term 2019

Wednesday 20 February 2019

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar - From Kurdistan to Europe: Kurdish Literary, Artistic and Cultural Activism by Kurdish Women Intellectuals
  Dr Özlem Belçim Galip (Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)

Saturday 23 February 2019

• 09:00 - Conference - Conversation with the Diaspora: The Future of South Sudan
  TBA

Tuesday 26 February 2019

• 14:15 - Israel Studies Seminar - Identity, Conflict perception and Reconciliation in the shadow of the Arab-Israeli conflict
  Dr. Ibrahim Khatib (University of Oxford)
  Israel Studies Seminar series Hilary Term 2019

Thursday 28 February 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Seminar - Revolution in Iran 1978-1979: Assessments and Reassessments upon the Fortieth Anniversary
  Touraj Atabaki (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam), Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford), Siavush Ranjbar Daemi (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 5 March 2019

• 14:15 - Israel Studies Seminar - Quality of Life and Well-being in Israel Today
  Professor Avner Offer (University of Oxford)
  Israel Studies Seminar series Hilary Term 2019
• 17:00 - MEC Seminar: Iran and sanctions
  Zep Kalb (UCLA), James Landale (BBC)

Friday 16 October 2020

• 17:00 - The Dictatorship Syndrome (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Alaa Al Aswany

Monday 12 February 2024

• 17:00 - Recognizing Palestinian Statehood: European views
  IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE MIDDLE EAST CENTRE
  Chris Doyle (Council for Arab-British Understanding), Alon Liel (Policy Working Group - Israel), Haizam Amirah Fernández (Elcano Royal Institute)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC X ESC Panel Discussion: The Debate on Recognition of Palestine
  Chris Doyle (CAABU), Alon Liel (Policy Working Group), Haizam Amirah Fernández (Elcano Royal Institute)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Monday 19 February 2024

• 17:00 - Is a Binational State Possible After 7 October?
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow), Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter)

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 17:00 - Colonizing Palestine: the Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba’
  Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Monday 29 April 2024

• 17:00 - The United Nations and the Question of Palestine
  Change of venue: Now in the Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road (NOT MEC Boardroom at 68 Woodstock Road as originally planned) | Copies of Professor Imseis's book can be purchased direct from Cambridge University Press website, use IMSEIS23 at checkout for 20% discount.
  Dr Adri Imseis (Queen's University)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 17:00 - The Damascus Events Book Launch
  Book copies will be on sale at the discounted price of £20 - cash only please | Drinks reception will follow the book signing
  Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Thursday 13 June 2024

• 17:00 - The 46th Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture
  Professor Amaney Jamal (Princeton University)

Tuesday 30 October 2018

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Christian Martyrs under Islam
  Christian C. Sahner (Associate Professor of Islamic History, Faculty of Oriental Studies)

Wednesday 7 November 2018

• 17:00 - Reconsidering Marshall Hodgson
  Edmund Burke III (UC Santa Cruz)

Friday 18 January 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Applying shari'a in modern times: Some reflections from 19th century Egypt
  Khaled Fahmy (Cambridge University)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Friday 25 January 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - The Middle East: Should We Give Up?
  Joost Hiltermann (International Crisis Group)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Friday 1 February 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - European policy on the Middle East: Making a difference?
  Nick Westcott (Director, Royal African Society)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Friday 8 February 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - The Iraq War Inquiry: a study in contemporary political, diplomatic, military and reconstruction history
  Sir John Chilcot
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Friday 15 February 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - title tbc
  Abbas Kadhim (Atlantic Council)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Friday 22 February 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Struggles for Justice during the Arab Uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia
  Heba Morayef (Amnesty International)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Friday 1 March 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Lebanon and the twenty-first century: populism, neoliberalism, and their discontents
  Andrew Arsan (University of Cambridge)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Friday 8 March 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Inside Tunisia’s al-Nahda: Between Politics and Preaching
  Rory McCarthy (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Thursday 20 June 2019

• 17:00 - George Antonius Memorial Lecture
  Dr Saeb Erekat (Palestine Liberation Organization Negotiation Affairs Department)