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Middle East Centre Booktalk

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

In this joint seminar with Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre, Wendy Pearlman, Professor at Northwestern University, shares personal testimonies collected from displaced Syrians around the world.
Middle East Centre Booktalk

From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics

In this Friday seminar, Jérôme Drevon discusses his book ‘From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics’ (OUP 2024).
Middle East Centre

The chaos (fawḍà) Bashshar al-Asad warned against – Damascus University 10th November 2005 – and present-day Syria

On Friday 21 February 2025, Professor Johannes Waardenburg gave the Middle East Centre’s Friday seminar
Middle East Centre

Lebanon and Syria Amidst Regional Turmoil

A talk from Joseph Bahout, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and Associate Professor of Practice in Political Studies.
Global Shocks
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The European Union

How does the European Union conduct its foreign policy in a turbulent world?
Middle East Centre Booktalk
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The Damascus Events Book Launch, Oxford

Book Launch for "The Damascus Events: the 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World" By Eugene Rogan, Published in hardback by Allen Lane, 2 May 2024.
Middle East Centre
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The Conflict in Syria, A Personal Story

Dr Haytham Alhamwi draws on his personal experiences to explain the story of the conflict in Syria.
Almanac – The Oxford Middle East Podcast

Lebanon’s Economic and political crisis

Piotr Schulkes, Felix Walker, and Michael Memari cover the ongoing crises in Lebanon’s political and economic systems.
Middle East Centre

Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There

Dr Lina Khatib, Director, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham, Jeremy Bowen (Middle East Editor, BBC News) give a talk on Syria and it's current political situation. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford).
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars

Documenting Crimes in Syria and Iraq: ISIS and the Crimes Against the Yazidis

This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series.
Changing Character of War
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A Westphalia for the Middle East?

This talk will discuss the parallels between the Thirty Years War and today’s Middle East and suggest ways in which lessons drawn from the congress and treaties of Westphalia.
Changing Character of War
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The Law and Practice of Cross-border Humanitarian Relief Operations: Syria as Case Study

Dapo Akande and Emanuela-Chiara Gilliard from ELAC (Oxford) discuss humanitarian relief in Syria
Syrians in displacement (Forced Migration Review 57)

FMR 57 - Caring for male and LGBTI sexual violence survivors: learning from local organisations

Local organisations responding to the Syrian humanitarian crisis are at the forefront of providing care for both male and LGBTI survivors of sexual violence.
Syrians in displacement (Forced Migration Review 57)

FMR 57 - Refugee youth, unemployment and extremism: countering the myth

Refugee youth unemployment has been linked to increased risk of extremism and/or exploitation. Research indicates, however, that unemployment is just one of many factors triggering frustration among young refugees.
Syrians in displacement (Forced Migration Review 57)

FMR 57 - Establishing legal identity for displaced Syrians

Seven years of conflict have had a serious detrimental effect on many Syrians' ability to prove their legal identity.
Syrians in displacement (Forced Migration Review 57)

FMR 57 - When is return voluntary? Conditions of asylum in Lebanon

The decision of Syrian refugees in Lebanon to return to Syria must not be based on a deteriorating quality of asylum that creates physical, social and material pressures on decisions to return.
Syrians in displacement (Forced Migration Review 57)

FMR 57 - Property restitution in post-conflict Syria

Although restitution of property should underpin any post-conflict agreement, in Syria this will be a complex exercise. Adherence to the UN’s Pinheiro Principles will be critical.
Syrians in displacement (Forced Migration Review 57)

FMR 57 - Perspectives on the return of Syrian refugees

There are many reasons why discussions about the imminent return of large numbers of Syrian refugees are premature.
Criminology
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Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State

All Souls Seminar, Centre for Criminology, Univeristy of Oxford, 18th January 2018.
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy: the polarized media landscape in Syria

Rima Marrouch, freelance journalist for Reuters, BBC, CBS, and Al Jazeera, gives a talk for the Reuters Seminar Series, Introduction by Richard Sambrook. Please note, that there are videos within this presentation which may sound distorted.

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