Middle East Centre

Decolonizing Security Studies - a North African perspective

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This seminar was delivered at the Middle East Centre on Thursday 12 March 2026 by Professor Nizar Messari (Al Akhawayn University) and was chaired by ...

An Autocratic Middle Class? State Dependency and Protest in the Middle East and North Africa

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This MENA Politics Seminar was delivered at the Middle East Centre on Tuesday 10 March 2026 by Professor Neil Ketchley (St Antony’s College) and was...

Saudi Arabia and the Global Trajectory of Islamic Law

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This seminar was delivered at the Middle East Centre on Thursday 5 February 2026 by Dr Dominik Krell (Wolfson College), and was chaired by Professor P...

Seeds in the Rubble: Cultural Vitality in the Arab World

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This seminar was delivered at the Middle East Centre on Thursday 20 November by Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation, and wa...

Seeds in the Rubble: Cultural Vitality in the Arab World

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This seminar was delivered at the Middle East Centre on Thursday 20 November by Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation, and wa...

Egypt’s Role, Identity, and Foreign Policy in a River of De-Nile

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This MENA Politics Series Seminar was delivered on Tuesday 18 November in the MEC’s Boardroom by Dr May Darwich (University of Birmingham) and was c...

Morocco’s Party of Justice and Development in Government: The Experience and the Future

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This seminar was delivered on Thursday 13 November in the MEC’s Investcorp Lecture Theatre by Mustapha El Khalfi (Former Minister of Communications,...

NGOization of the Palestinian civil society post-Oslo: our community-based ways out

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This seminar was delivered on 28 May 2025 by St Antony’s George Antonius Birzeit Visiting Fellow, Dr Amal Nazzal, and Palestinian political and femi...

Gaza Genocide as a Symptom: Fragile World Order and Regional Impacts

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The MEC’s opening Thursday seminar of the 2025-26 academic year was delivered by the former Prime Minister of Türkiye, Ahmet Davutoğlu, and chaire...

Big Tech and the Automation of Genocide in Gaza

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This seminar was delivered at the Middle East Centre on 30 May 2025 by Dr Samer Abdelnour, University of Edinburgh Business School, and Chaired by St ...

The Devaki Jain Lecture - Empowered voices: Jordanian women shaping their future

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Middle East Centre was honoured to host the 2025 Devaki Jain Lecture. This year’s lecture was delivered by Rana Husseini, Jordanian activist, jo...

The Devaki Jain Lecture - Empowered voices: Jordanian women shaping their future (Transcript)

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Middle East Centre was honoured to host the 2025 Devaki Jain Lecture. This year’s lecture was delivered by Rana Husseini, Jordanian activist, jo...

Liberation Theology in Palestine

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A paper delivered by Rev. Dr Mitri Alraheb at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a p...

Liberation Theology in Palestine (Transcript)

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A paper delivered by Rev. Dr Mitri Alraheb at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a p...

Towards an Inclusive Narrative, History, and Methodology

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A paper delivered by Dr Hamdan Taha at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel ch...

Towards an Inclusive Narrative, History, and Methodology (Transcript)

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A paper delivered by Dr Hamdan Taha at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel ch...

After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this talk anthropologist Munira Khayyat revisits the South Lebanon borderland, where she has conducted long term fieldwork in the wake of its almos...

After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon (Transcript)

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this talk anthropologist Munira Khayyat revisits the South Lebanon borderland, where she has conducted long term fieldwork in the wake of its almos...

The Archaeology and History of Palestine - Book introduction

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A paper delivered by Dr Iman Saca at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel chai...

The Archaeology and History of Palestine - Book introduction (Transcript)

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A paper delivered by Dr Iman Saca at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel chai...

History of the British Mandate in Palestine

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A paper delivered by Dr Issam Nassar at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel c...

History of the British Mandate in Palestine (Transcript)

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A paper delivered by Dr Issam Nassar at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel c...

New Critical Assessment of the Archaeology and History of Palestine During the Early and Middle Islamic Periods

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A paper delivered by Dr Mahmoud Hawari at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel...

New Critical Assessment of the Archaeology and History of Palestine During the Early and Middle Islamic Periods (Transcript)

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A paper delivered by Dr Mahmoud Hawari at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel...

Palestine Research Centre symposium at the MEC – Opening remarks

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Speech delivered by H.E. Dr Mohammad Shtayyeh, Chairman of the Palestine Research Centre and former Palestinian Prime Minister, at a symposium held at...

Palestine Research Centre symposium at the MEC – Opening remarks (Transcript)

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Speech delivered by H.E. Dr Mohammad Shtayyeh, Chairman of the Palestine Research Centre and former Palestinian Prime Minister, at a symposium held at...

The Prehistory of Palestine

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A paper delivered by Dr Ghattas Sayej at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel ...

The Prehistory of Palestine (Transcript)

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A paper delivered by Dr Ghattas Sayej at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel ...

Philip Michael Wolfson on Dame Zaha Hadid and the 10 Year Anniversary of the Investcorp Building

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Former head of design for Dame Zaha Hadid, Philip Michael Wolfson, reflects on her work and career in the first of two lectures marking the 10-year an...

Philip Michael Wolfson on Dame Zaha Hadid and the 10 Year Anniversary of the Investcorp Building (Transcript)

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Former head of design for Dame Zaha Hadid, Philip Michael Wolfson, reflects on her work and career in the first of two lectures marking the 10-year an...

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

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On Friday 21 February 2025, Professor Johannes Waardenburg gave the Middle East Centre’s Friday seminar Biography: Professor JST Waardenburg teaches...

Israeli Public Opinion, War and Prospects for Peace

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Political strategist and public opinion researcher, Dr Dahlia Scheindlin, shares her analysis of public opinion surveys before and during the war in G...

The Axis of Resistance

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A panel with Kamran Matin (University of Sussex), Yasmeen al-Eryani (Tampere Peace Research Institute) and Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford). Chair...

Sudan's current war: a longer view on peacemaking and prospects

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A talk from Dr Richard Barltrop, Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre, reflecting on the current war in Sudan and exploring lessons fr...

Lebanon and Syria Amidst Regional Turmoil

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A talk from Joseph Bahout, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beiru...

Defining antisemitism: what is the point

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this talk, Dr Klug and Professor Lavi explore the following questions, among others: What useful role can definitions play in this controversy? Can...

Regional dimensions of the Gaza crisis, and the Arab role in the UN Security Council

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mouin Rabbani and Hasmik Egian discuss the impact the crisis in Gaza has had on the Arab world, with a particular focus on the UN Security Council. Mo...

From the Cradle to the Street: Family and the 1979 Revolution in Iran

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Naghmeh Sohrabi, Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History and Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Stud...

What Gazans Think Before and After October 7th

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Amaney A. Jamal discusses findings from surveys in Gaza and the West Bank, as the 46th Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture. Guest Spea...

Reflections on Tunisian Women's Continued Fight for Respect, Dignity and Rights: Focus on Women in the Labour Movement

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

MEC Women's Rights Research Seminar delivered by Dr Heba El-Shazli (George Mason University) Chaired by Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College) The ...

Webs of oppression’ in everyday organizing in Palestine: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This talk delves into the multifaceted challenges Palestinian women activists face, revealing how intersecting oppressions within a settler-colonized ...

The Gender Effect in Intra-Party Meritocracy (with Rabia Kutlu)

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture explores how parliamentary activity affects the candidacy list placements of MPs in closed-list PR systems, particularly focusing on the ...

Is a Binational State Possible After 7 October?

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast, Oxford Emeritus Professor Avi Shlaim compares notes with Exeter University Professor Ilan Pappé on the prospects for a binational st...

Panel Discussion: Recognizing Palestinian Statehood: European views

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A discussion of European initiatives to recognize the State of Palestine to advance the prospects for a two-state solution. In this episode, former Is...

Genocide and Accountability in Gaza: The Limits and Potential of International Law

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Prof Noura Erakat explores the significance of South Africa's application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide ...

The Settler Movement, Political Impasses, and Beyond

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Hagar Kotef from SOAS examines the current situation of Israeli settlers both in the West Bank and in the Cabinet to assess the impact of the settl...

Considering the Political Options in Gaza After Three Months of War

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the opening meeting of the Middle East Centre’s Hilary Term seminar series, the Fellows of the Centre led a panel discussion to set out the agend...

Israeli Public Opinion and Political Options after 7 October

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Yuli Tamir considers Israeli public opinion following the 7 October 2023 attack and the constraints that public opinion imposes on the polit...

Modern Arab Kingship - Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Mestyan argues that post-Ottoman Arab political orders were not, as many historians believe, products of European colonialism but of the process ...

Stories to Connect: The Reza Hosseini Memorial Lecture Series on the past and present of the Middle East

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Professor Ghassan Salamé for his Lecture on 'Lessons from 2003 Iraq: Twenty Years Later.' Jointly organised by Invisible East and St Antony's Co...

Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Yoav di Capua offers a comprehensive empirical, theoretical, and methodological reassessment of the Arab 60s as a global pursuit with lesson...

What have the Arab Uprisings done to "Contemporary Arab Thought"?

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab offers some reflections on the challenges that a post-2011 Arab critique might be facing. What have the Arab Uprisi...

Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Avi Shlaim gives the George Antonius Memorial Lecture 2023, examining the Jewish exodus from Iraq in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli ...

Memorial in honour of Derek Hopwood OBE and Celia Kerslake

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Director and Fellows of the Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College convened a memorial in honour of Derek Hopwood OBE, Emeritus Fellow in Middl...

Women’s Movements and Citizenship in the Middle East

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Women's Rights Research Seminar where guest speaker, Dr Roel Meijer (Guest Lecturer in Islam Studies, Radboud Universiteit) presents on Women’s move...

The Conflict in Syria, A Personal Story

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Haytham Alhamwi draws on his personal experiences to explain the story of the conflict in Syria. Through his personal story as a previous political...

'The Transformation of Iraq since the 2003 Invasion: From "The Dodgy Dossier", to Human Security, Gender, and the Nation's Future in the Face of Climate Change'

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture examines the resilience of the Iraqi state and nation before and after the 2003 invasion. Since 1980, Iraq weathered the longest conventi...

Iraq 2018-2019: The Rule of Law: a perspective

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Rt Hon Sir Peter Gross (Formerly, Lead Judge for International Relations) shares his insight into the Judicial and Rule of Law developments in Ira...

Cheaters Dilemma: Iraq, WMD and the path to the 2003 war

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Why did Iraq fail to prove its WMD absence before the 2003 invasion? This seminar examines new evidence from Iraq and United Nations sources to shed l...

The Popular Mobilisation Units and their Pursuit of Power and Legitimacy within the Iraqi State

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk examines the Shi‘ite political parties linked to Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) and their influence over the state, exploring the...

The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk explores the impact of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 on militant Islamism using new evidence. How did the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2...

Clerics in the time of Tishreen

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The evolution of religion-civil society relations in post-2003 Iraq. The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 created a seismic shift in clerical-state r...

The International Thought of Turkish Islamists: History, Civilization and Nation

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Katerina Dalacoura will presents her research project entitled ‘The International Thought of Turkish Islamists’, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Majo...

The struggle for Salafism in Egypt’s post-revolutionary period

21 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A Middle East Centre Seminar on Salafism. Salafism was the religious idiom that dominated Egypt's aborted political transition in the wake of the 2011...

Resurrecting the Caliphate: The Creed of Abraham and ISIS’s Hermeneutics of Power

21 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A talk with a focus on the contemporary militant group referred to by the acronym ISIS (or ISIL) and its views on the “caliphate.” As this group ...

Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Mohammad Khalil scrutinises the claim by New Atheists like Richard Dawkins that Islam is a fundamentally violent religion Is Islam fundament...

Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Mohammad Khalil scrutinises the claim by New Atheists like Richard Dawkins that Islam is a fundamentally violent religion Is Islam fundament...

Centres, Peripheries and New Histories of the Left in Iran

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How historians can gain new insights from global history, and how historians and histories of Iran can contribute Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Le...

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

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Esther Hertzog gives a talk on the vulnerable situation of motherhood in the Israeli welfare state. This talk will examine the role of state au...

Yemen’s Enduring Crisis

29 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Helen Lackner speaks about Yemen’s enduring crisis. Helen Lackner updates the seminar on the Yemeni war, providing a brief analysis of the origins o...

The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Joseph Sassoon in conversation with Dr Michael Willis about his recent book, The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sa...

All Jihad Is Local: the Micro-Politics of Militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and Beyond

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Raphaël Lefèvre in conversation with Dr Neil Ketchley about his recent book, 'Jihad in the City: Militant Islamism and Contentious Politics in Tr...

All Jihad Is Local: the Micro-Politics of Militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and Beyond

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Raphaël Lefèvre in conversation with Dr Neil Ketchley about his recent book, 'Jihad in the City: Militant Islamism and Contentious Politics in Tr...

The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Marilyn Booth speaking on her new book. This book is an intellectual biography of early Arabic feminist Zaynab Fawwaz (c.1850-1914) and a study of her...

The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Neil Ketchley in conversation with Professor Walter Armbrust about his current research. The post-WWII era saw coups and “revolutions from above”...

Islam and the Arab Revolutions – the Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East?

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 3rd December 2021 for the Middle East Centre Like many parts of the world, the environment in the...

Afghanistan and the Middle East

06 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live webinar held on Thursday 25th November 2021 for the Middle East centre. Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (Associate Professor of Mi...

Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 19th November 2021 for the MEC. Dr Michael Mason, Director of the Middle East Centre, London Scho...

Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Po...

The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy?

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On 25 July 2021 Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the government and suspended parliament, subsequently employing the army and security forces a...

Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oil price volatility and accelerated energy transitions away from hydrocarbons to meet climate change mitigation measures have presented existential t...

The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its afterlives

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Env...

The Politics of Water Scarcity in the Case of Jordan

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Hussam Hussein investigates the construction of the discourse of water scarcity in Jordan, and the political economy of the water sector. This is a...

Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 20...

War on Bodies Moral Immunity and the Psychopolitics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 (F...

Women's Rights on The Altar of a Strategic Stake: The New Population Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran

18 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Marie Ladier-Fouladi (CNRS)/ CETOBaC) gives a talk for the MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars. Chaired by Soraya Tremayne (Institute of So...

Hamid Dabashi in conversation about his new book:The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad

07 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hamid Dabashi (Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York), gives a talk for the Middl...

The Tinderbox documentary film discussion

20 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gillian Mosely (Film Director and Producer) joins Dr Anne Irfan, Professor Eugene Rogan and our Middle East Centre webinar audience to talk about her ...

Debating the Law, Creating Gender - MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Irene Schneider (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), gives a talk for the MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars. Chaired by Professor Mari...

Ashmolean Museum - Middle East Centre: Owning the Past: A troubled century of Anglo-Iraqi relations

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 monar...

Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture - Iran and the Arab Uprisings: Opportunity Grasped or Squandered?

19 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sponsored in association with Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali, Founder and Chair, Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute. With Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Prof...

Counter-Revolutions Vs. Counter-Marginalization Movements: (Re)Visiting the Online Tug-of-War a Decade After the Arab Spring

17 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Tunisia: Unfinished Revolutions (Held jointly with the British-Tunisian Society)

12 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Mich...

Libya: Past, Present and Future

09 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 b...

The Place of Religion After the Uprisings

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Shadi Hamid (Brookings Institution; contributing writer, The Atlantic) and Professor Nadia Oweidat (Kansas State University) give a talk for the M...

Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism?

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Maha Yahya (PhD, Director, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre) Maysoon Pachachi (Film director) give a talk for the Middle East Studies Centr...

The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships

09 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 c...

Apocalymbo: Trickster Politics in the Age of the Pandemic (and Other Crises)

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College, Oxford), author of Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution (2019), gives a talk for ...