| The struggle for Salafism in Egypt’s post-revolutionary period |
A Middle East Centre Seminar on Salafism. |
Stéphane Lacroix, Thomas Hegghammer |
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| Resurrecting the Caliphate: The Creed of Abraham and ISIS’s Hermeneutics of Power |
A talk with a focus on the contemporary militant group referred to by the acronym ISIS (or ISIL) and its views on the “caliphate.” |
Asma Afsaruddin, Eugene Rogan |
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| Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism |
Professor Mohammad Khalil scrutinises the claim by New Atheists like Richard Dawkins that Islam is a fundamentally violent religion |
Mohammad Khalil, Eugene Rogan |
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| Centres, Peripheries and New Histories of the Left in Iran |
How historians can gain new insights from global history, and how historians and histories of Iran can contribute |
Rasmus Elling, Stephanie Cronin |
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| Nemir Kirdar Memorial Event |
Memorial event for the late Mr Nemir Amin Kirdar (1936-2020). |
Roger Goodman, Margaret MacMillan, Eugene Rogan, Serra Kirdar, Yusef Abu Khadra, Mohammed Alardhi, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa |
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| Women's Rights Research Seminar: Threatened motherhood in the Israeli welfare state: The discourse and the practice behind the disqualification of disadvantaged women's motherhood |
Prof. Esther Hertzog gives a talk on the vulnerable situation of motherhood in the Israeli welfare state. |
Esther Hertzog, Soraya Tremayne |
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| Yemen’s Enduring Crisis |
Helen Lackner speaks about Yemen’s enduring crisis. |
Helen Lackner, Michael Willis |
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| The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty |
Professor Joseph Sassoon in conversation with Dr Michael Willis about his recent book, The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty (Allen Lane, Penguin Group, 2022). Emeritus Professor Avi Shlaim joins them. |
Joseph Sassoon, Michael Willis, Avi Shlaim, Eugene Rogan, Faisal Devji |
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| All Jihad Is Local: the Micro-Politics of Militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and Beyond |
Dr Raphaël Lefèvre in conversation with Dr Neil Ketchley about his recent book, 'Jihad in the City: Militant Islamism and Contentious Politics in Tripoli' (Cambridge University Press, 2021). |
Raphael Lefevre, Neil Ketchley |
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| The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt |
Marilyn Booth speaking on her new book. |
Marilyn Booth |
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| The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution |
Dr Neil Ketchley in conversation with Professor Walter Armbrust about his current research. |
Neil Ketchley, Walter Armbrust |
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| Islam and the Arab Revolutions – the Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy |
Join us as we listen to Dr Usaama al-Azami (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford) in conversation about his new book, 'Islam and the Arab Revolutions, the Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy'. |
Usaama al-Azami, Michael Willis |
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| What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East? |
This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 3rd December 2021 for the Middle East Centre |
Christian Henderson, Walter Armbrust |
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| Afghanistan and the Middle East |
This is a recording of a live webinar held on Thursday 25th November 2021 for the Middle East centre. |
Ibrahim al-Marashi, Michael Willis, Kate Clark |
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| Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq |
This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 19th November 2021 for the MEC. |
Michael Willis, Michael Mason |
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| Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation |
This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 12th November 2021 for the MEC. Dr Mattin Biglari (SOAS, University of London) presents “Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation”. |
Stephanie Cronin, Mattin Biglari |
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| The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy? |
On 25 July 2021 Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the government and suspended parliament, subsequently employing the army and security forces around government buildings to thwart any opposition to his power grab. |
Youssef Cherif, Anne Wolf, Michael Willis |
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| Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf |
Oil price volatility and accelerated energy transitions away from hydrocarbons to meet climate change mitigation measures have presented existential threats to the economies of hydrocarbon-dependent welfare states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). |
Manal Shehabi, Walter Armbrust, Michael Willis |
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| The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its afterlives |
This is a recording of a live webinar held on 29th October 2021 for the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East. |
jamie furniss, Walter Armbrust |
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| The Politics of Water Scarcity in the Case of Jordan |
Dr Hussam Hussein investigates the construction of the discourse of water scarcity in Jordan, and the political economy of the water sector. |
Hussam Hussein, Neil Ketchley, Michael Willis |
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| Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East |
MEC Friday Webinar. This is a recording of a live webinar held on 15th October 2021 for the first episode of the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East. |
Michael J. Willis, Walter Armbrust, Laurent Mignon, Usaama al-Azami |
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| War on Bodies Moral Immunity and the Psychopolitics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran |
Dr Orkideh Behrouzan (SOAS University of London), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series on 21st May 2021, chaired by Edmund Herzig (Faculty of Oriental Studies). Discussant: Dr Maziyar Ghiabi (University of Exeter). |
Orkideh Behrouzan, Edmund Herzig, Maziyar Ghiabi |
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| Women's Rights on The Altar of a Strategic Stake: The New Population Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
Professor Marie Ladier-Fouladi (CNRS)/ CETOBaC) gives a talk for the MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars. Chaired by Soraya Tremayne (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology). |
Marie Ladier-Fouladi |
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| Hamid Dabashi in conversation about his new book:The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad |
Hamid Dabashi (Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York), gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. |
Hamid Dabashi |
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| The Tinderbox documentary film discussion |
Gillian Mosely (Film Director and Producer) joins Dr Anne Irfan, Professor Eugene Rogan and our Middle East Centre webinar audience to talk about her documentary film, The Tinderbox - Israel and Palestine: time to call time? |
Gillian Mosely, Anne Irfan, Eugene Rogan |
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| Debating the Law, Creating Gender - MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars |
Professor Irene Schneider (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), gives a talk for the MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars. Chaired by Professor Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford) |
Irene Schneider |
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| Ashmolean Museum - Middle East Centre: Owning the Past: A troubled century of Anglo-Iraqi relations |
A webinar that explores the complex history binding Iraq and the U.K. from the First World War through the mandate and creation of the Hashemite monarchy, and Britain’s role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath. |
Eugene Rogan, Dina Rizk Khoury, Charles Tripp, Myfanwy Lloyd |
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| Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture - Iran and the Arab Uprisings: Opportunity Grasped or Squandered? |
Sponsored in association with Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali, Founder and Chair, Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute. With Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Professor of International Relations in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University) |
Anoush Ehteshami |
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| Counter-Revolutions Vs. Counter-Marginalization Movements: (Re)Visiting the Online Tug-of-War a Decade After the Arab Spring |
Dr Marc Owen Jones (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) and Dr Sahar Khamis (University of Maryland) give a talk for the MEC Friday Seminars Series. Chaired by Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College, Oxford). |
Marc Owen Jones, Sahar Khamis, Walter Armbrust, Eugene Rogan |
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| Tunisia: Unfinished Revolutions (Held jointly with the British-Tunisian Society) |
Hela Ammar (Artist) and Mohamed Kerrou (University of Tunis El Manar) give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. Chaired by Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College, Oxford), the discussant was Professor Charles R H Tripp (SOAS). |
Hela Ammar, Mohamed Kerrou, Michael Willis, Charles R H Tripp |
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| Libya: Past, Present and Future |
Anas El Gomati (Sadeq Institute) and Mary Fitzgerald (King's College London) give a talk on Libya for the Middle East Centre seminar series. Chaired by Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College). |
Anas El Gomati, Mary Fitzgerald |
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| The Place of Religion After the Uprisings |
Dr. Shadi Hamid (Brookings Institution; contributing writer, The Atlantic) and Professor Nadia Oweidat (Kansas State University) give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday seminar series. Chaired by Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College). |
Shadi Hamid, Nadia Oweidat, Usaama al-Azami |
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| Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism? |
Maha Yahya (PhD, Director, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre) Maysoon Pachachi (Film director) give a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St. Antony's College, Oxford). |
Maha Yahya, Maysoon Pachachi, Eugene Rogan |
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| The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships |
Ece Temelkuran, author of How to Lose a Country: the Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship (2019) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar series. Chaired by Dr Laurent Mignon (St Antony's College, Oxford). |
Ece Temelkuran, Laurent Mignon |
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| 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). |
Lina Khatib, Jeremy Bowen |
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| Apocalymbo: Trickster Politics in the Age of the Pandemic (and Other Crises) |
Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College, Oxford), author of Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution (2019), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series on 20th November 2020. |
Walter Armbrust, Michael Willis |
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| ‘God Does not Discriminate’: Inclusive Mosques Politics in France and the United Kingdom |
Benjamin Dubrulle (Maison Française d'Oxford), gives a seminar for the MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars. Chaired by Dr Soraya Tremayne (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford) on 18th November 2020. |
Benjamin Dubrulle |
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| The Trajectory of the Tunisian Revolution: between Continuities and Disjunctures |
Professor Sami Zemni (Ghent) gives a talk on the Tunisian Revolution on its 10 year anniversary. Part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series, chaired by Dr Michael Willis (St Anthony's College). |
Sami Zemni |
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| The New Populist nationalism in Saudi Arabia |
Madawi Al-Rasheed (KCL and LSE), author of Salman’s Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia (2018) and Ben Hubbard (The New York Times), author of MBS: The Rise to Power of MBS (2020) give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. |
Madawi al-Rasheed, Ben Hubbard |
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| Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt |
Dalia Fahmy (Long Island University) editor of Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy (2017), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. |
Dalia Fahmy, Daanish Faruqi, Usaama al-Azami |
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| Challenging the Limited View - The Case of the Women in Mosques Movement |
Part of the Middle East Centre Women's Rights Research Seminars. With Dr Mine Yildirim Chair: Dr Nazila Ghanea (Department for Continuing Education,University of Oxford). |
Mine Yildirim, Nazila Ghanea |
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| Authoritarian or Revolutionary? Reflections on the Nature of the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran |
Maryam Alemzadeh (Princeton) Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (St Andrews), author of The Quest for Authority in Iran: a history of the presidency from revolution to Rouhani (2017), give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. |
Maryam Alemzadeh, Siavush Randjbar-Daemi |
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| The Dictatorship Syndrome |
Alaa Al Aswany, author of The Dictatorship Syndrome (2019), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford) |
Alaa Al Aswany, Eugene Rogan |
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| Refugee Studies Centre: Book launch - Palestinian Refugees in International Law |
Book launch for the new book Palestinian Refugees in International Law by Lex Takkenberg and Francesca Albanese. |
Lex Takkenberg, Francesca Albanese |
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| The Saudi Arabia of Muhammad bin Salman: How Much Change? |
Professor Gregory Gause (Head of International Affairs Department, The Bush School of Government and Public Service) gives a talk on Saudi Arabia crown prince Muhammad bin Salman. Introduced by Dr Toby Matthiesen (St. Antony's College, Oxford. |
Gregory Gause |
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| Book Launch - Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda |
Peter Hill (Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne), gives a talk on his new book, Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St. Antony's College, Oxford). |
Peter Hill |
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| The struggle for Iraq's political field after the assassination of Qasim Sulimani, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis; the protest movement, Iraq's militias and the ruling elite |
Professor Toby Dodge, LSE, gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre seminar series. Chaired by Dr Toby Matthiesen (St. Antony's College, Oxford). |
Toby Dodge |
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| Justice and Islamic Law: Mazalim Courts and Legal Reform |
Professor Jonathan Brown, Georgetown University, gives a talk for the Middle East seminar series. Chaired by Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College). |
Jonathan Brown, Usaama al-Azami |
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| Iran, Iraq and the US after the Qasim Sulemani assassination |
Panel discussion looking at US, Iranian and Iraqi politics after the Qasim Sulemani assassination. Held in Oxford on Monday, 20th January 2020 |
Felix Gedney, Emma Sky, Sir Simon Mayall, Toby Matthiesen |
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| Iraq and Iran: old foes, ambivalent allies |
Ambassador Wilks CMG (HM British Ambassador to Iraq), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series. |
Ambassador Wilks CMG |
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