| Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema |
Join us for Booktalk Episode 9, Professor Deborah Starr (Cornell University) in conversation about her new book, Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema, published by California Press. |
Deborah Starr, Walter Armbrust |
21 October, 2021 |
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| Atalia Omer - Pathways toward a Jewish Israeli Restorative Ethics |
Atalia Omer discusses restorative justice practices and the possibilities (and limits) of Jewish critiques of Zionism. |
Atalia Omer, Yaacov Yadgar |
20 October, 2021 |
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| Independence and Colonialism in the Western Sahara |
Piotr Schulkes, Helna Murphy, Hajar Meddah, and Felix Walker discuss the recent development in the Western Sahara, caused by America’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the territory. |
Piotr Schulkes, Helna Murphy, Hajar Meddah, Felix Walker |
6 October, 2021 |
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| Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics |
Join us for Booktalk Episode 8, Dr Carl Rommel (University of Helsinki) in conversation about his new book Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics, published by University of Texas Press in July 2021. |
Carl Rommel, Walter Armbrust |
29 September, 2021 |
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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 |
17 June, 2021 |
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| Making Film in Egypt |
Join us as we listen to Dr Chihab El Khachab (King’s College, Cambridge) in conversation about his new book – Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology, and Mediation Shape the Industry. Published by American University in Cairo Press. |
Chihab El Khachab |
18 May, 2021 |
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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 |
18 May, 2021 |
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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 |
7 May, 2021 |
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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 |
20 April, 2021 |
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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 |
19 April, 2021 |
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| Booktalk episode 6: Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis |
For our sixth episode of MEC Booktalk, guest author David Warren (Washington University in St Louis) discusses his recent book, Rivals in the Gulf, published by Routledge in January 2021. |
David Warren, Usaama al-Azami |
12 April, 2021 |
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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 |
24 March, 2021 |
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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 |
19 March, 2021 |
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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 |
17 March, 2021 |
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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 |
12 March, 2021 |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Elana Shapira: Berta Zuckerkandl and Her Circle: Austrian Nationalism and Zionism in Viennese Modernism |
Elana Shapira discusses the tangled relationship between Austrian Nationalism and Zionism in Viennese Modernism |
Elana Shapira |
9 March, 2021 |
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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 |
9 March, 2021 |
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| A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic |
Guest author Dr Fatemeh Shams (Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania) talks with Booktalk host Dr Zuzanna Olszewska (University of Oxford). |
Fatemeh Shams, Zuzanna Olszewska |
4 March, 2021 |
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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 |
26 February, 2021 |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Maja Gildin Zuckerman: The Pragmatism of Proto-Zionism: Tracing Jewish Nation-building through a Cultural Sociological Framework |
Maya Gildin Zuckerman discusses a 1897 tour from London to Palestine as a moment in the Zionist meaning making process. |
Maja Gilding Zuckerman |
23 February, 2021 |
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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 |
23 February, 2021 |
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| History, politics, and Anecdotes with Eugene Rogan |
Piotr Schulkes and Eugene Rogan discuss the importance of history in contemporary Middle Eastern politics, how the West discusses the region, and a number of stories from Rogan’s time at Oxford. |
Piotr Schulkes, Eugene Rogan |
22 February, 2021 |
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| Jamie Stern-Weiner: IHRA: The Politics of a Definition |
Jamie Stern-Weiner (Oxford) traces the genesis and evolution of a controversial 'working definition' of antisemitism. |
Jamie Stern-Weiner |
16 February, 2021 |
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| The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought |
Join us for the fourth MEC Booktalk episode where Dr Usaama al-Azami talks with guest author Andrew March about his new book, The Caliphate of Man: The Invention of Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought, published by Harvard University Press, 2021 |
Usaama al-Azami, Andrew March |
16 February, 2021 |
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| Lebanon’s Economic and political crisis |
Piotr Schulkes, Felix Walker, and Michael Memari cover the ongoing crises in Lebanon’s political and economic systems. |
Michael Memari, Felix Walker, Piotr Schulkes |
9 February, 2021 |
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| Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition |
Join us for the third MEC Booktalk episode where Dr Usaama al-Azami talks with guest author Ahmed El Shamsy about his new book, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition. |
Ahmed El Shamsy, Usaama al-Azami |
7 February, 2021 |
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| Anna Prashizky: Connecting Ethnicity and Space: The New Russian-Mizrahi-Mediterranean Pop Culture in Israel’s Periphery |
Ann Prashizky discusses 'self orientalistation' by the 1.5 generation of FSU immigrants to Israel. |
Anna Prashizky |
2 February, 2021 |
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| Adam Sutcliffe: Light Unto the Nations - The Idea of Jewish Purpose and the Emergence of Zionism (Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar) |
Adam Sutcliffe (KCL) discusses how Zionist ideologues have viewed the notion of Jewish purpose. |
Adam Sutcliffe |
27 January, 2021 |
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| New Year’s Episode |
The whole team gets together to discuss what their moment of note of 2020 was, what they are looking out for in 2021, and what their favourite book on the Middle East is. |
Piotr Schulkes, Helena Murphy, Frederike Brockhoven, Max Randall, Rose Johnson, Hajar Meddah, Felix Walker, Michael Memari |
26 January, 2021 |
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| Tal Shamur (Cambridge): The emergence of melancholic citizenship at the urban periphery: The case of south Tel Aviv protest against global migration |
Tal Shamur presents his work on the melancholic protest of Hatikva residents. |
Tal Shamur |
19 January, 2021 |
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| The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet |
Episode 2, with Dr Faisal Devji, (St Antony’s College, Oxford), talks with Joshua Craze (University of Chicago) and writer Aaron Tugendhaft about Aaron's new book The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet, University of Chicago Press 2020. |
Faisal Devji, Joshua Craze, Aaron Tugendhaft |
18 January, 2021 |
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| Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads |
First episode of Booktalk, where host Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford) talks with David Rundell on his book Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads, Bloomsbury Publication (2020. |
Eugene Rogan, David Rundell |
18 January, 2021 |
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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 |
9 December, 2020 |
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| Child abuse and dancing boys in Afghanistan |
Piotr Schulkes, Rose Johnson, and Max Randall dive into the phenomenon of the Dancing Boys of Afghanistan. |
Piotr Schulkes, Rose Johnson, Max Randall |
3 December, 2020 |
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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 |
3 December, 2020 |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Rose Stair (Oxford): Age and gender in German-language cultural Zionism |
The fourth lecture in the Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies seminar series. Rose Stair discusses cultural Zionism through a focus on age and gender. |
Rost Stair |
1 December, 2020 |
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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 |
25 November, 2020 |
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| Peter Bergamin (Oxford): Guns and Moses: Jewish anti-British Resistance during the Mandate for Palestine |
Peter Bergamin presents some findings and conclusions from his recent research on the British Mandate for Palestine, focusin on the phenomena of Jewish illegal immigration and anti-British terrorism, and their role in Britain’s eventual abandonment of the |
Peter Bergamin |
24 November, 2020 |
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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 |
24 November, 2020 |
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| Avi Shlaim on Revisionist History and Israel |
Piotr Schulkes and Avi Shlaim, Fellow of the British Academy, sit down to discuss Israel’s New Historians; who they are, what they believe, and the popular reception to it. |
Avi Shlaim, Piotr Schulkes |
20 November, 2020 |
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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 |
18 November, 2020 |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Yuval Evri (KCL) - The Return to Al-Andalus: Disputes Over Sephardic Culture and Identity Between Arabic and Hebrew |
Yuval Evri discusses his new book, The Return to Al-Andalus, Disputes Over Sephardic Culture and Identity Between Arabic and Hebrew |
Yuval Evri |
17 November, 2020 |
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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 |
17 November, 2020 |
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| Nahshon Perez (Bar-Ilan) and Yuval Jobani (Tel Aviv): Governing the Sacred: Political Toleration in Five Contested Sacred Sites |
Nachshon Perez discusses Perez and Jobani's co-authored book on the politics of contested sacred sites |
Nachshon Perez |
10 November, 2020 |
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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 |
10 November, 2020 |
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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 |
6 November, 2020 |
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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 |
4 November, 2020 |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Semina: Danielle Drori (Oxford): Yosef Klausner in Translation: Zionism and Christianity |
The second seminar in the Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalism Sereis. Danielle Drori discusses Zionism and translation, with a focus on Klausner's Life of Jesus |
Danielle Drori |
3 November, 2020 |
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| Orientalism and the Language of the Middle East |
Lillie Sullivan, Piotr Schulkes, and Hajar Meddah discuss what the Middle East as a region is and how it is portrayed in academia and the media. |
Piotr Schulkes, Hajar Meddah, Lillie Sullivan |
2 November, 2020 |
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| Hadeel Abu Hussein (Oxford): Palestinian Arab Citizens in Israel, Equality Struggle |
Hadeel Abu Hussein discusses the historical stages of the Palestinian Arab citizens in Israel with respect to their political formation and social experience as individuals and a collective starting from 1948, until nowadays. |
Hadeel Abu Hussein |
27 October, 2020 |
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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 |
23 October, 2020 |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Yair Wallach, (SOAS): Language of Revival or Conquest? Hebrew in the Streets of early 20th century Jerusalem |
Yair Wallach discusses his book A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem (Stanford University Press, 2020). |
Yair Wallach |
22 October, 2020 |
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| Sandy Kedar: Emptied Lands - A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev. |
Prof. Sandy Kedar (Haifa) discusses his co-authored book on the legal rights of the Bedouin in the Negev. |
Sandy Kedar |
14 October, 2020 |
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| Female Entrepreneurship in the Middle East |
Frederike Brockhoven sits down with Rania Ayman of Entreprenelle, Yasmeen Mjalli of Babyfist, and Lina Khalifeh of Shefighter to discuss female entrepreneurship in the Middle East. |
Frederike Brockhoven, Rania Ayman, Lina Khalifeh |
7 October, 2020 |
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| The Kafala System |
Hajar Meddah, Felix Walker and Piotr Schulkes discuss the Middle East’s controversial Kafala system, that allows employers to exploit workers and undermine their rights without breaking the law. |
Hajar Meddah, Felix Walker, Piotr Schulkes |
28 September, 2020 |
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| Normalization, annexation, and the Palestinians |
Piotr Schulkes, Frederike Brockhoven, and Michael Memari discuss the impact of the normalization of the UAE-Israeli relationship on Netanyahu’s annexation plan, why it's yet more bad news for Palestinians, and American reticence to improve the situation. |
Michael Memari, Frederike Brockhoven, Piotr Schulkes |
8 September, 2020 |
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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 |
2 April, 2020 |
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| Hizky Shoham - The Emotional Scripting of Boycotts: The Nazi-Zionist Agreement in Jewish Public Culture During the 1930s |
Hizky Shoham discusses the 'emotionologies' surrounding the Nazi-Zionist 'Transfer agreement.' |
Hizky Shoham |
26 February, 2020 |
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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 |
25 February, 2020 |
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| Larissa Remennick - The Israeli Diaspora in Berlin: Back to Being Jewish? |
Larissa Remeniick discuss the origins and present condition of the new (post-2010) Israeli diaspora in Berlin |
Larissa Remennick |
19 February, 2020 |
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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 |
12 February, 2020 |
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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 |
7 February, 2020 |
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| Lotem Perry-Hazan: Ethnic segregation in the Haredi education in Israel: Policies and practices |
Lotem Perry-Hazzan discusses ethnic discrimination in admissions to Haredi schools in Israel |
Lotem Perry-Hazzan |
5 February, 2020 |
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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 |
29 January, 2020 |
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| Heather Munro: Ashkenazi Hegemony in Haredi Israeli Society and Implications for the Future |
Heather Monro discusses the implications of Ashkenazi Hegemony in the Israeli Haredi society. |
Heather Munro |
28 January, 2020 |
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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 |
28 January, 2020 |
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| The Making of the Israeli Far Right Book Talk by Peter Bergamin |
Peter Bergamin discusses his new book: The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology |
Peter Bergamin |
22 January, 2020 |
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| Seyed Ali Alavi - Iran and Palestine: Past, Present and Future |
Ali Alavi discusses the history of Iran's relations with Palestinian organisation and the Palestinian cause, and their implication to Iranian-Israeli relations. |
Ali Alavi |
22 January, 2020 |
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| Tamar Calahorra, Competition between Members of Parliament and Governmental ministries on Policy Outcomes through Legislation – Israel as a Test case |
Dr. Calahorra studies some dramatic changes in the ways legislation is conducted in Israel |
Tamar Calahorra |
3 December, 2019 |
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| Nancy Hawker - Palestinian multilingualism: A perfectly normal adaptation to colonialism, conflict and late capitalism |
Nancy Hawker (The Aga Khan University) considers the developing place of Arabic in official nation-statist platforms in Israel |
Nancy Hawker |
27 November, 2019 |
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| Yoav Ronel - 'Love, Zionism and Melancholy in the Prose of Micha Yosef Berdichevsky' |
Yoav Ronel (Bezalel and BGU) considers representations of a melancholic national and subjective desire in the prose of Micha Yosef Berdichevsky (1865-1921) |
Yoav Ronnel |
20 November, 2019 |
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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 |
15 November, 2019 |
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| Avihu Shoshana - 'Nocturnal Inequality: Ethnographies of Social Selection and Waiting in Line for Night Clubs in Tel-Aviv' |
Avihu Shoshana (Haifa University) discusses findings from his ethnography of social selection in Israeli night-clubs. |
Avihu Shoshana |
13 November, 2019 |
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| Jonathan Leslie - Fear and Insecurity: Competing Narratives of the Iran-Israel Relationship |
Jonathan Leslie considers the history of Iran's "becoming" and existential threat in Israel |
Jonathan Leslie |
6 November, 2019 |
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| Moriel Ram, 'A tale of sand and snow: Bar-Lev line and the Hermon ski site as material fantasies' |
Moriel Ram (SOAS) discusses how sand and snow produce potent imageries and physical realities in Israeli political culture. |
Moriel Ram |
5 November, 2019 |
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| Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution |
Professor Walter Armbrust (St. Antony's College, Oxford) gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre seminar series. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St. Antony's College, Oxford). |
Walter Armbrust |
22 October, 2019 |
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| Hirak: A roundtable on the Algerian protests |
Roundtable discussion looking at the Algerian protests. With Michael Willis (St Antony’s College), James McDougall (Trinity College), Hicham Yezza (Ceasefire Magazine) and Latefa Guemar (University of East London). |
Michael Willis, James McDougall, Hicham Yezza, Latefa Guemar |
20 June, 2019 |
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| George Antonius Memorial Lecture: Reflections on Three Decades in Pursuit of Palestinian Statehood |
Dr Saeb Erekat (Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization) gives the 2019 George Anronius Memorial Lecture. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College). |
Saeb Erekat |
20 June, 2019 |
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| Lecture and Book Launch- The politics of family law reform in Jordan and Morocco: Two seemingly similar monarchies, two different approaches |
Dr Dorthe Engelcke (Max Planck Institute, Hamburg) gives a discussion Chair: Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College). |
Dörthe Engelcke |
14 June, 2019 |
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| The Thirty Year Genocide - Turkey's destruction of its Christian minorities, 1894-1924 |
Professor Benny Morris and Professor Dror Ze'evi give a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre seminar series. Chaired by Dr Laurent Mignon (St Antony's College). |
Benny Morris, Dror Ze'evi |
3 June, 2019 |
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| Situating the Study of Islam in Global Intellectual History: Toshihiko Izutsu's Middle-Earth |
Armando Salvatore (McGill University) gives a talk as part of the following conference: Neither Near Nor Far: Encounters and Exchanges between Japan and the Middle East. |
Armando Salvatore |
29 May, 2019 |
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| Reflections on Recent Events in the Republic of Sudan |
Panel discussion on the Republic of Sudan. Joint event with The Sudanese Programme, held in St Antony's College on May 3rd 2019. |
Ahmed al-Shahi, Sara Abdelgalil, Richard Barltrop |
10 May, 2019 |
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| Desert in the Promised Land: The Politics and Semiotics of Space in Israeli Culture |
Yael Zerubavel (Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers University) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre, chaired by Professor Yaacov Yadgar (Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies, St Anne's). |
Yael Zerubavel |
10 May, 2019 |
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| Revolution in Iran 1978-1979: Assessments and Reassessments upon the Fortieth Anniversary |
Middle East Centre seminar with Touraj Atabaki (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam), Stephanie Cronin (Oxford University, Siavush Randjbar Daemi (University of St Andrews). Chaired by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (University of Oxford) |
Touraj Atabaki, Stephanie Cronin, Siavush Randjbar Daemi, Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi |
1 May, 2019 |
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| Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda: Between Politics and Preaching |
Rory McCarthy (Magdalen College, Oxford) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series, chaired by Michael Willis (St Antony's College). |
Rory McCarthy, Michael Willis |
1 May, 2019 |
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| Women's Rights Research Seminar - From Kurdistan to Europe: Kurdish Literary, Artistic and Cultural Activism by Kurdish Women Intellectuals |
Dr Ozlem Belcim Galip (Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow, The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series, chaired by Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College). |
Ozlem Belcim Galip, Marilyn Booth |
1 May, 2019 |
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| Twenty-first century: populism, neoliberalism, and their discontents |
Andrew Arsan (University of Cambridge) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre. Chaired by Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College). |
Andrew Arsan |
1 May, 2019 |
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| In Search of Institutional Order: Can the Shi'a Marja'iyya Depart from Traditional Limits and Unlock the Future Potential? |
Dr Abbas Kadhim (Atlantic Council) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series, charied by Toby Matthiesen (St Antony's College). |
Abbas Kadhim |
30 April, 2019 |
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| The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 3: Israel: a dialogue between Yehouda Shenhav (Tel Aviv) and Yaacov Yadgar (Oxford) |
Yehouda Shenhav and Yaacov Yadgar discuss the uses and misuses of a discourse on “Judaism” in Israel. Session 3 in a series of three. |
Yehouda Shenhav, Yuval Evri, Yaacov Yadgar |
3 April, 2019 |
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| The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 2: Liberalism and Secularism: a dialogue between Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern) and Yolanda Jansen (Amsterdam) |
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Yolande Jansen discuss the notion of the “secular,” liberal politics of the nation-state. Session 2 in a series of three |
Elisabeth Shakman Hurd, Yolande Jansen |
3 April, 2019 |
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| The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 1 Religion and Politics: a dialogue between William Cavanaugh (DePaul) and Timothy Fitzgerald (Centre for Critical Research on Religion) |
Timothy Fitzgerald and William Cavanaugh discuss the politics and history of the conceptual duality and its current usages. First session in a series of three |
Timothy Fitzgerald, William Cavanaugh |
3 April, 2019 |
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| The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat |
Relli Shechter (St Antony’s College) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre, on 29th January 2019. |
Relli Shechter |
8 March, 2019 |
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| Avner Offer: Quality of Life and Well-being in Israel Today |
Avner offer discusses how to measure -- and how to understand the measurements -- of quality of life and well-being in Israel. |
Avner Offer |
6 March, 2019 |
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| Eyal Chowers - The emerging notion of sovereignty in contemporary Israel |
Eyal Chowers considers Israeli democracy, liberalism, and the emerging notion of sovereignty in the state |
Eyal Chowers |
6 March, 2019 |
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| Iran and sanctions |
Zep Kalb (UCLA) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre. Chaired by Yassamine Mather. |
Zep Kalb |
5 March, 2019 |
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| Guy Burton - Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1947' |
How have rising power engaged with the Arab-Israeli conflict? What does this tell us about rising powers and conflict management as well as their behaviour in international politics more generally? |
Guy Burton |
27 February, 2019 |
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| Ibrahim Khatib - Identity, Conflict perception and Reconciliation in the shadow of the Arab-Israeli conflict |
Ibrahim Khatib discusses the correlations between identity, conflict perception, and willingness to reconcile. |
Ibrahim Khatib |
27 February, 2019 |
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| Women and Social Change in North Africa: What Counts as Revolutionary? A Discussion |
Dr Imane Chaara (QEH Oxford), Dr Doris Gray (Al Akhawayn University), Dr Nadia Sonneveld (Radboud University) take part in a discussion at the Middle East Studies centre. Chair by Michael Willis (St Antony's College). |
Imane Chaara, Doris Gray, Nadia Sonneveld |
25 February, 2019 |
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| The Iraq War Inquiry - a study in contemporary political, diplomatic, military and reconstruction history |
The seminar will consider the Iraq Inquiry’s origins, terms of reference, mode of operation, and issues which arose in the course of its work, in framing its conclusions, and on its publication and reception. |
Sir John Chilcot |
8 February, 2019 |
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| Menachem Klein - Abbas' Leadership in a State Postponed |
Menachem Klein discusses the political biography and leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority. |
Menachem Klein |
6 February, 2019 |
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