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Middle East Centre — 191 episodes
Spectral politics in the Middle East and North Africa: the afterlives of violence and the force of memory
"Barbarian” Women: North African Literary Perspectives on Emancipation
Contingency of Structures: Triggers and the Social Geography of Revolutionary Episodes in Iran 2017–2022
Decolonizing Security Studies - a North African perspective
An Autocratic Middle Class? State Dependency and Protest in the Middle East and North Africa
Saudi Arabia and the Global Trajectory of Islamic Law
Seeds in the Rubble: Cultural Vitality in the Arab World
Egypt’s Role, Identity, and Foreign Policy in a River of De-Nile
Morocco’s Party of Justice and Development in Government: The Experience and the Future
NGOization of the Palestinian civil society post-Oslo: our community-based ways out
Gaza Genocide as a Symptom: Fragile World Order and Regional Impacts
Big Tech and the Automation of Genocide in Gaza
The Devaki Jain Lecture - Empowered voices: Jordanian women shaping their future
Liberation Theology in Palestine
Towards an Inclusive Narrative, History, and Methodology
After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
The Archaeology and History of Palestine - Book introduction
History of the British Mandate in Palestine
New Critical Assessment of the Archaeology and History of Palestine During the Early and Middle Islamic Periods
Palestine Research Centre symposium at the MEC – Opening remarks
The Prehistory of Palestine
Philip Michael Wolfson on Dame Zaha Hadid and the 10 Year Anniversary of the Investcorp Building
The chaos (fawḍà) Bashshar al-Asad warned against – Damascus University 10th November 2005 – and present-day Syria
Israeli Public Opinion, War and Prospects for Peace
The Axis of Resistance
Sudan's current war: a longer view on peacemaking and prospects
Lebanon and Syria Amidst Regional Turmoil
Defining antisemitism: what is the point
Regional dimensions of the Gaza crisis, and the Arab role in the UN Security Council
From the Cradle to the Street: Family and the 1979 Revolution in Iran
What Gazans Think Before and After October 7th
Reflections on Tunisian Women's Continued Fight for Respect, Dignity and Rights: Focus on Women in the Labour Movement
Webs of oppression’ in everyday organizing in Palestine: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis
The Gender Effect in Intra-Party Meritocracy (with Rabia Kutlu)
Is a Binational State Possible After 7 October?
Panel Discussion: Recognizing Palestinian Statehood: European views
Genocide and Accountability in Gaza: The Limits and Potential of International Law
The Settler Movement, Political Impasses, and Beyond
Considering the Political Options in Gaza After Three Months of War
Israeli Public Opinion and Political Options after 7 October
Modern Arab Kingship - Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East
Stories to Connect: The Reza Hosseini Memorial Lecture Series on the past and present of the Middle East
Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond
What have the Arab Uprisings done to "Contemporary Arab Thought"?
Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective
Memorial in honour of Derek Hopwood OBE and Celia Kerslake
Women’s Movements and Citizenship in the Middle East
The Conflict in Syria, A Personal Story
'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'
Iraq 2018-2019: The Rule of Law: a perspective
Cheaters Dilemma: Iraq, WMD and the path to the 2003 war
The Popular Mobilisation Units and their Pursuit of Power and Legitimacy within the Iraqi State
The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism
Clerics in the time of Tishreen
The International Thought of Turkish Islamists: History, Civilization and Nation
The struggle for Salafism in Egypt’s post-revolutionary period
Resurrecting the Caliphate: The Creed of Abraham and ISIS’s Hermeneutics of Power
Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism
Centres, Peripheries and New Histories of the Left in Iran
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
Yemen’s Enduring Crisis
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty
All Jihad Is Local: the Micro-Politics of Militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and Beyond
The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt
The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
Islam and the Arab Revolutions – the Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy
What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East?
Afghanistan and the Middle East
Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq
Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation
The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy?
Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf
The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its afterlives
The Politics of Water Scarcity in the Case of Jordan
Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East
War on Bodies Moral Immunity and the Psychopolitics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran
Women's Rights on The Altar of a Strategic Stake: The New Population Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Hamid Dabashi in conversation about his new book:The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
The Tinderbox documentary film discussion
Debating the Law, Creating Gender - MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Ashmolean Museum - Middle East Centre: Owning the Past: A troubled century of Anglo-Iraqi relations
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture - Iran and the Arab Uprisings: Opportunity Grasped or Squandered?
Counter-Revolutions Vs. Counter-Marginalization Movements: (Re)Visiting the Online Tug-of-War a Decade After the Arab Spring
Tunisia: Unfinished Revolutions (Held jointly with the British-Tunisian Society)
Libya: Past, Present and Future
The Place of Religion After the Uprisings
Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism?
The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships
Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There
Apocalymbo: Trickster Politics in the Age of the Pandemic (and Other Crises)
‘God Does not Discriminate’: Inclusive Mosques Politics in France and the United Kingdom
The Trajectory of the Tunisian Revolution: between Continuities and Disjunctures
The New Populist nationalism in Saudi Arabia
Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt
Challenging the Limited View - The Case of the Women in Mosques Movement
Authoritarian or Revolutionary? Reflections on the Nature of the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The Dictatorship Syndrome
Refugee Studies Centre: Book launch - Palestinian Refugees in International Law
The Saudi Arabia of Muhammad bin Salman: How Much Change?
Book Launch - Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda
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
Justice and Islamic Law: Mazalim Courts and Legal Reform
Iran, Iraq and the US after the Qasim Sulemani assassination
Iraq and Iran: old foes, ambivalent allies
Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution
Hirak: A roundtable on the Algerian protests
George Antonius Memorial Lecture: Reflections on Three Decades in Pursuit of Palestinian Statehood
Lecture and Book Launch- The politics of family law reform in Jordan and Morocco: Two seemingly similar monarchies, two different approaches
The Thirty Year Genocide - Turkey's destruction of its Christian minorities, 1894-1924
Situating the Study of Islam in Global Intellectual History: Toshihiko Izutsu's Middle-Earth
Reflections on Recent Events in the Republic of Sudan
Desert in the Promised Land: The Politics and Semiotics of Space in Israeli Culture
Revolution in Iran 1978-1979: Assessments and Reassessments upon the Fortieth Anniversary
Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda: Between Politics and Preaching
Women's Rights Research Seminar - From Kurdistan to Europe: Kurdish Literary, Artistic and Cultural Activism by Kurdish Women Intellectuals
Twenty-first century: populism, neoliberalism, and their discontents
In Search of Institutional Order: Can the Shi'a Marja'iyya Depart from Traditional Limits and Unlock the Future Potential?
The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat
Iran and sanctions
Women and Social Change in North Africa: What Counts as Revolutionary? A Discussion
The Iraq War Inquiry - a study in contemporary political, diplomatic, military and reconstruction history
European Policy on the Middle East: Making a Difference?
The Middle East: Should We Give Up?
And then God created the Middle East and said let there be breaking news
Iraq after the elections: A new beginning?
Crafting a human rights-based approach to HIV/AIDS for women in the Middle East
Reconsidering Marshall Hodgson
Book Launch: Christian Martyrs under Islam
Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo
Between Love and Lineage: Elopement, Rights and Violence in an Afghan Valley
Book launch: Khalil Maleki -The Human Face of Iranian Socialism
A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State (South Sudan)
Lords of the Desert: Britain’s struggle with America to dominate the Middle East
Book Event: On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements
Workshop: Memory, Memoirs, and History part 2
Workshop: Memory, Memoirs, and History Part 1
The Question of Judeo-Arabic: Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary
Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture - The Tunisian Revolution: Achievements and disillusions
Women's Rights Research Seminar: Tale of two Omani women
Arab Media in the New Age
Israel and Palestine: Why Britain Should Recognize the Second State
Religious Freedom in Turkey
The challenges of healthcare in Gaza
Gaza: Martyrdom and Betrayal
Women's Rights Research Seminar: Women and the Struggle for Democracy in Iran
De Gaulle in Beirut- The Chehab Experiment, 1958-1964
Women's Rights Research Seminar- A Global History of the Struggle for Women’s Rights: The Women’s Movement in Istanbul in the Context of International Feminism in the Early 20th Century
The Gulf Crisis
War crimes, crimes against humanity and territorial fragmentation: are peace and reconstruction possible in Syria?
A View of Globalisation from its Margin: Searching for Karate’s Budo Roots in Contemporary Egypt
Are Algerian politics exhausted?
What challenges does Israel face in the world today?
Governing Divided Egypt
WRRS: Dancing with Words: Subverting the Master Narrative in Saudi Women’s Literature
Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States
George Antonius Memorial Lecture: The Iraq Invasion and Aftermath: Lessons for Arab World Reform
Book Launch: Islam: The Essentials
The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation
Panel Discussion: Prospects of Iraqi Kurdistan's Independence Amid Regional Turbulences
Writing an Arab Officer into the 1948 War for Palestine
Tunisia
Free Expression in the Gulf
Jews, Muslims, and Law in Nineteenth-Century Morocco
Islam in Europe
The Conflict in Libya
The Syrian Conflict
Book launch: Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt
Contemporary Challenges for Political Islam
How Syria was destroyed: The dynamics of a civil war
Women and the 19th Century Emergence of the Arabic Novel
Britain and Palestine: Balfour to Blair
The Political Economy of Violence in the Middle East: What Questions Should the Social Scientist Ask?
Activism and Accountability in Contemporary Lebanon: A Quiet Revolt?
The Limits of Refusal: Israel, Lebanon, and the Shadow of 1982
Accounts of madrassahs post-9/11: Bearings of Recent History
Beyond Uprising: Inside Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
The Automobile Club of Egypt
The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula in the Global Cold War
The Islamic State, the Kurdistan Region, and the Future of Iraq
Is Religion Really Violent?
The creation of governments-in-waiting: the Arab Uprisings and legitimacy in the international system
Speaking Truth to Power: The BBC and the Middle East
Turkey’s Kurdish Predicament
ISIS: Between Fragmentation and Unity
From periphery to IRCAM: how Morocco's Berbers have come in from the cold
“Bled ma-fihash Yahud ma-fihash Ta'arikh" Researching and Narrating Morocco's Jewish Community
The Water Crisis in Yemen: Managing Extreme Water Scarcity in the Middle East. Book Launch
Which way forward?
Israel - Palestine: Can Europe Save the Two-State Idea
How European Governments subcontract policy on Israel/Palestine to parliamentarians,civil society and businesses
Title: Why Egypt’s 2011 Uprising Has Failed to deliver on its Promise?