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The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa

Professor Malika Zeghal (Harvard University) presents her new book 'The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa', an innovative analysis that traces the continuity of the state’s custodianship of Islam.

The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran

Ali Mirsepassi in conversation with Stephanie Cronin about his new book

Israeli Public Opinion and Political Options after 7 October

Professor Yuli Tamir considers Israeli public opinion following the 7 October 2023 attack and the constraints that public opinion imposes on the political options moving forward.

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

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

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

Join Professor Ghassan Salamé for his Lecture on 'Lessons from 2003 Iraq: Twenty Years Later.'

Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond

Professor Yoav di Capua offers a comprehensive empirical, theoretical, and methodological reassessment of the Arab 60s as a global pursuit with lessons that transcend the geography of the Middle East - the fruit of a decade of research on Arab thought.

Book Launch: Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism

Dr Hertog presents the key arguments of his new short monograph “Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism” published by Cambridge University Press.

Clerics in the time of Tishreen

The evolution of religion-civil society relations in post-2003 Iraq.

Algeria: Politics and Society from the Dark Decade to the Hirak

Dr Michael Willis' new book offers an explanation of this unexpected development known as the Hirak Movement, examining the political and social changes that have occurred in Algeria since the ‘dark decade’ of the 1990s

In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the 20th-Century Middle East

Aaron Rock-Singer presents their latest book "In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the 20th-Century Middle East".

The Making of the Modern Middle East

A vivid and authoritative account of the making of the modern Middle East, from the BBC’s long-serving correspondent in the region.

Nemir Kirdar Memorial Event

Memorial event for the late Mr Nemir Amin Kirdar (1936-2020).

Religion II

Professor Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern University) speaking on 'Decolonizing the category of religion' and Dr Rushain Abbasi (Stanford University) speaking on 'Regulating Religion in Premodern Islamic Governance'.

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.

Law

Professor Mohammad Fadel speaking on ‘The Protean Sovereign of Sunni Law’ and Professor Lena Salaymeh speaking on ‘Reconsidering the Political in Premodern Islam.'

Violence

Nesrine Badawi speaking on ‘Debating Militancy in the Modern World’ and Murad Idris speaking on ‘Theorizing Colonialism, Capitalism, and Violence in an Islamist Key.'

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.

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).

Sovereignty

Neguin Yavari speaking on ‘Islamic imperatives and Islamic rulers’, Samy Ayoub speaking on ‘Law and the Exercise of Power: Debates on Political Legitimacy and Authority in the 19th - 20th centuries Egypt’.

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

Marilyn Booth speaking on her new book.

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