• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Middle East Centre
• Timing: Usually 5pm on Tuesdays during Term
• Web Address: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/middle-east-centre-booktalk
• Organising department: Middle East Centre

Tuesday 15 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood
  Dr Ezgi Başaran (University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood
  Dr Ezgi Başaran (University of Oxford)

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
  Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University)

Tuesday 29 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Tahrir, Gaza, and beyond: revolution, liberation, and praxis
  Rusha Latif (author of 'Tahrir's Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution')

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization
  Dr Elham Fakhro (Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School)

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - God's Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani
  Sajad Jiyad

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

• 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)