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Francesca Albanese (UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories) in conversation with Avi Shlaim

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Spectral politics in the Middle East and North Africa: the afterlives of violence and the force of memory

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"Barbarian” Women: North African Literary Perspectives on Emancipation

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Contingency of Structures: Triggers and the Social Geography of Revolutionary Episodes in Iran 2017–2022

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Decolonizing Security Studies - a North African perspective

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

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Saudi Arabia and the Global Trajectory of Islamic Law

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Seeds in the Rubble: Cultural Vitality in the Arab World

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

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

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

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

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Big Tech and the Automation of Genocide in Gaza

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

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Liberation Theology in Palestine

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Towards an Inclusive Narrative, History, and Methodology

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

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The Archaeology and History of Palestine - Book introduction

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History of the British Mandate in Palestine

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

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Palestine Research Centre symposium at the MEC – Opening remarks

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The Prehistory of Palestine

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

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

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Israeli Public Opinion, War and Prospects for Peace

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The Axis of Resistance

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

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Lebanon and Syria Amidst Regional Turmoil

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Defining antisemitism: what is the point

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

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

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What Gazans Think Before and After October 7th

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

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

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

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Is a Binational State Possible After 7 October?

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Panel Discussion: Recognizing Palestinian Statehood: European views

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

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The Settler Movement, Political Impasses, and Beyond

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Considering the Political Options in Gaza After Three Months of War

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Israeli Public Opinion and Political Options after 7 October

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

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

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Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond

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

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Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective

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Memorial in honour of Derek Hopwood OBE and Celia Kerslake

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Women’s Movements and Citizenship in the Middle East

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The Conflict in Syria, A Personal Story

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'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'

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

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

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

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The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism

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Clerics in the time of Tishreen

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

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

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

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Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism

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Centres, Peripheries and New Histories of the Left in Iran

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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

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Yemen’s Enduring Crisis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Afghanistan and the Middle East

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Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq

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

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The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy?

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Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf

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

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The Politics of Water Scarcity in the Case of Jordan

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Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East

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

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

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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

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The Tinderbox documentary film discussion

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

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

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

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

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

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Libya: Past, Present and Future

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The Place of Religion After the Uprisings

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Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism?

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The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships

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Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There

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

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‘God Does not Discriminate’: Inclusive Mosques Politics in France and the United Kingdom

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The Trajectory of the Tunisian Revolution: between Continuities and Disjunctures

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The New Populist nationalism in Saudi Arabia

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Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt

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Challenging the Limited View - The Case of the Women in Mosques Movement

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Authoritarian or Revolutionary? Reflections on the Nature of the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran

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The Dictatorship Syndrome

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Refugee Studies Centre: Book launch - Palestinian Refugees in International Law

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The Saudi Arabia of Muhammad bin Salman: How Much Change?