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

2

Decolonizing Security Studies - a North African perspective

3

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

4

Saudi Arabia and the Global Trajectory of Islamic Law

5

Seeds in the Rubble: Cultural Vitality in the Arab World

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

Big Tech and the Automation of Genocide in Gaza

11

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

12

Liberation Theology in Palestine

13

Towards an Inclusive Narrative, History, and Methodology

14

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

15

The Archaeology and History of Palestine - Book introduction

16

History of the British Mandate in Palestine

17

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

18

Palestine Research Centre symposium at the MEC – Opening remarks

19

The Prehistory of Palestine

20

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

21

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

22

Israeli Public Opinion, War and Prospects for Peace

23

The Axis of Resistance

24

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

25

Lebanon and Syria Amidst Regional Turmoil

26

Defining antisemitism: what is the point

27

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

28

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

29

What Gazans Think Before and After October 7th

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

Is a Binational State Possible After 7 October?

34

Panel Discussion: Recognizing Palestinian Statehood: European views

35

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

36

The Settler Movement, Political Impasses, and Beyond

37

Considering the Political Options in Gaza After Three Months of War

38

Israeli Public Opinion and Political Options after 7 October

39

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

40

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

41

Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond

42

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

43

Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective

44

Memorial in honour of Derek Hopwood OBE and Celia Kerslake

45

Women’s Movements and Citizenship in the Middle East

46

The Conflict in Syria, A Personal Story

47

'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'

48

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

49

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

50

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

51

The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism

52

Clerics in the time of Tishreen

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism

57

Centres, Peripheries and New Histories of the Left in Iran

58

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

59

Yemen’s Enduring Crisis

60

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

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

Afghanistan and the Middle East

67

Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq

68

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

69

The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy?

70

Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf

71

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

72

The Politics of Water Scarcity in the Case of Jordan

73

Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East

74

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

75

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

76

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

77

The Tinderbox documentary film discussion

78

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

79

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

80

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

81

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

82

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

83

Libya: Past, Present and Future

84

The Place of Religion After the Uprisings

85

Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism?

86

The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships

87

Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There

88

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

89

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

90

The Trajectory of the Tunisian Revolution: between Continuities and Disjunctures

91

The New Populist nationalism in Saudi Arabia

92

Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt

93

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

94

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

95

The Dictatorship Syndrome

96

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

97

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

98

Book Launch - Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda

99

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

100

Justice and Islamic Law: Mazalim Courts and Legal Reform

101

Iran, Iraq and the US after the Qasim Sulemani assassination

102

Iraq and Iran: old foes, ambivalent allies

103

Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution

104

Hirak: A roundtable on the Algerian protests

105

George Antonius Memorial Lecture: Reflections on Three Decades in Pursuit of Palestinian Statehood

106

Lecture and Book Launch- The politics of family law reform in Jordan and Morocco: Two seemingly similar monarchies, two different approaches

107

The Thirty Year Genocide - Turkey's destruction of its Christian minorities, 1894-1924

108

Situating the Study of Islam in Global Intellectual History: Toshihiko Izutsu's Middle-Earth

109

Reflections on Recent Events in the Republic of Sudan

110

Desert in the Promised Land: The Politics and Semiotics of Space in Israeli Culture

111

Revolution in Iran 1978-1979: Assessments and Reassessments upon the Fortieth Anniversary

112

Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda: Between Politics and Preaching

113

Women's Rights Research Seminar - From Kurdistan to Europe: Kurdish Literary, Artistic and Cultural Activism by Kurdish Women Intellectuals

114

Twenty-first century: populism, neoliberalism, and their discontents

115

In Search of Institutional Order: Can the Shi'a Marja'iyya Depart from Traditional Limits and Unlock the Future Potential?

116

The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat

117

Iran and sanctions

118

Women and Social Change in North Africa: What Counts as Revolutionary? A Discussion

119

The Iraq War Inquiry - a study in contemporary political, diplomatic, military and reconstruction history

120

European Policy on the Middle East: Making a Difference?

121

The Middle East: Should We Give Up?

122

And then God created the Middle East and said let there be breaking news

123

Iraq after the elections: A new beginning?

124

Crafting a human rights-based approach to HIV/AIDS for women in the Middle East

125

Reconsidering Marshall Hodgson

126

Book Launch: Christian Martyrs under Islam

127

Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo

128

Between Love and Lineage: Elopement, Rights and Violence in an Afghan Valley

129

Book launch: Khalil Maleki -The Human Face of Iranian Socialism

130

A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State (South Sudan)

131

Lords of the Desert: Britain’s struggle with America to dominate the Middle East

132

Book Event: On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements

133

Workshop: Memory, Memoirs, and History part 2

134

Workshop: Memory, Memoirs, and History Part 1

135

The Question of Judeo-Arabic: Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary

136

Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture - The Tunisian Revolution: Achievements and disillusions

137

Women's Rights Research Seminar: Tale of two Omani women

138

Arab Media in the New Age

139

Israel and Palestine: Why Britain Should Recognize the Second State

140

Religious Freedom in Turkey

141

The challenges of healthcare in Gaza

142

Gaza: Martyrdom and Betrayal

143

Women's Rights Research Seminar: Women and the Struggle for Democracy in Iran

144

De Gaulle in Beirut- The Chehab Experiment, 1958-1964

145

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

146

The Gulf Crisis

147

War crimes, crimes against humanity and territorial fragmentation: are peace and reconstruction possible in Syria?

148

A View of Globalisation from its Margin: Searching for Karate’s Budo Roots in Contemporary Egypt

149

Are Algerian politics exhausted?

150

What challenges does Israel face in the world today?

151

Governing Divided Egypt

152

WRRS: Dancing with Words: Subverting the Master Narrative in Saudi Women’s Literature

153

Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States

154

George Antonius Memorial Lecture: The Iraq Invasion and Aftermath: Lessons for Arab World Reform

155

Book Launch: Islam: The Essentials

156

The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation

157

Panel Discussion: Prospects of Iraqi Kurdistan's Independence Amid Regional Turbulences

158

Writing an Arab Officer into the 1948 War for Palestine

159

Tunisia

160

Free Expression in the Gulf

161

Jews, Muslims, and Law in Nineteenth-Century Morocco

162

Islam in Europe

163

The Conflict in Libya

164

The Syrian Conflict

165

Book launch: Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt

166

Contemporary Challenges for Political Islam

167

How Syria was destroyed: The dynamics of a civil war

168

Women and the 19th Century Emergence of the Arabic Novel

169

Britain and Palestine: Balfour to Blair

170

The Political Economy of Violence in the Middle East: What Questions Should the Social Scientist Ask?

171

Activism and Accountability in Contemporary Lebanon: A Quiet Revolt?

172

The Limits of Refusal: Israel, Lebanon, and the Shadow of 1982

173

Accounts of madrassahs post-9/11: Bearings of Recent History

174

Beyond Uprising: Inside Egypt's Unfinished Revolution

175

The Automobile Club of Egypt

176

The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula in the Global Cold War

177

The Islamic State, the Kurdistan Region, and the Future of Iraq

178

Is Religion Really Violent?

179

The creation of governments-in-waiting: the Arab Uprisings and legitimacy in the international system

180

Speaking Truth to Power: The BBC and the Middle East

181

Turkey’s Kurdish Predicament

182

ISIS: Between Fragmentation and Unity

183

From periphery to IRCAM: how Morocco's Berbers have come in from the cold

184

“Bled ma-fihash Yahud ma-fihash Ta'arikh" Researching and Narrating Morocco's Jewish Community

185

The Water Crisis in Yemen: Managing Extreme Water Scarcity in the Middle East. Book Launch

186

Which way forward?

187

Israel - Palestine: Can Europe Save the Two-State Idea

188

How European Governments subcontract policy on Israel/Palestine to parliamentarians,civil society and businesses

189

Title: Why Egypt’s 2011 Uprising Has Failed to deliver on its Promise?