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From Separation to a Shared Homeland: Notes on Settler-Colonial Urbanism in Israel/Palestine |
In this presentation, Professor Yacobi aims to discuss settler colonial urbanism(s) in Palestine/Israel, while exploring the different spatial and political typologies developed during the last few decades. |
Haim Yacobi |
10 Nov 2025 |
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NGOization of the Palestinian civil society post-Oslo: our community-based ways out |
This seminar was delivered on 28 May 2025 by St Antony’s George Antonius Birzeit Visiting Fellow, Dr Amal Nazzal, and Palestinian political and feminist organizer at Rawa, Soheir Asaad. |
Soheir Asaad, Amal Nazzal, Maryam Alemzadeh |
31 Oct 2025 |
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Precarious Labour in Precarious Times: The Impact of the War in Israel/Palestine on Non-Citizen Workers |
Although overshadowed by the scale of atrocities in Gaza since October 2023, employment and workers’ rights significantly affect individual lives, non-citizen workers, and the region’s political economy |
Maayan Nietza |
23 Oct 2025 |
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Gaza Genocide as a Symptom: Fragile World Order and Regional Impacts |
The MEC’s opening Thursday seminar of the 2025-26 academic year was delivered by the former Prime Minister of Türkiye, Ahmet Davutoğlu, and chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan |
Ahmet Davutoğlu, Eugene Rogan |
20 Oct 2025 |
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Liberation Theology in Palestine |
A paper delivered by Rev. Dr Mitri Alraheb at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan. |
Mitri Alraheb, Eugene Rogan |
27 May 2025 |
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Towards an Inclusive Narrative, History, and Methodology |
A paper delivered by Dr Hamdan Taha at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan. |
Hamdan Taha, Eugene Rogan |
27 May 2025 |
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The Archaeology and History of Palestine - Book introduction |
A paper delivered by Dr Iman Saca at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan. |
Iman Saca, Eugene Rogan |
22 May 2025 |
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History of the British Mandate in Palestine |
A paper delivered by Dr Issam Nassar at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan. |
Issam Nassar, Eugene Rogan |
22 May 2025 |
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New Critical Assessment of the Archaeology and History of Palestine During the Early and Middle Islamic Periods |
A paper delivered by Dr Mahmoud Hawari at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan. |
Mahmoud Hawari, Eugene Rogan |
22 May 2025 |
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Palestine Research Centre symposium at the MEC – Opening remarks |
Speech delivered by H.E. Dr Mohammad Shtayyeh, Chairman of the Palestine Research Centre and former Palestinian Prime Minister, at a symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. |
Mohammad Shtayyeh, Eugene Rogan |
22 May 2025 |
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The Prehistory of Palestine |
A paper delivered by Dr Ghattas Sayej at the Palestine Research Centre symposium held at the MEC on Friday 9 May 2025. This paper was part of a panel chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan. |
Ghattas Sayej, Eugene Rogan |
22 May 2025 |
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Genocide in Gaza |
On Tuesday 18 February 2025, the Middle East Centre hosted the launch for St Antony’s Emeritus Fellow, Professor Avi Shlaim’s, new book ‘Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine’ (Irish Pages Press, 2025). |
Avi Shlaim, Eugene Rogan, Chris Agee |
07 Mar 2025 |
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Israeli Public Opinion, War and Prospects for Peace |
Political strategist and public opinion researcher, Dr Dahlia Scheindlin, shares her analysis of public opinion surveys before and during the war in Gaza. |
Dahlia Scheindlin, Eugene Rogan |
19 Feb 2025 |
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Religious Actors and Transnational Solidarity: The question of Palestine |
Prof. Raihan Ismail in Session 2: Islamist and Religious Currents: Networks of Influence and Ideology, at November 2024 Contemporary Islamic Studies Oxford/SEPAD, Lancaster University workshop: Transnational Islamic Movements: Global and Local Realities. |
Raihan Ismail, Antonella Acinapura |
13 Jan 2025 |
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Synagogues in Israeli Urban Internal Frontiers as Symbols of Sovereignty |
Israeli synagogues in mixed cities following the 1948 war, and their sovereign role |
David Borabeck |
15 Nov 2024 |
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New & Jew, Zionism and the Quest for National Culture |
The Creation of Hebrew Music and its Origins |
Yaron Peleg |
06 Nov 2024 |
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What Gazans Think Before and After October 7th |
Professor Amaney A. Jamal discusses findings from surveys in Gaza and the West Bank, as the 46th Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture. |
Amaney A. Jamal, Eugene Rogan |
26 Jun 2024 |
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The United Nations and the Question of Palestine |
Professor Ardi Imseis new book explores the UN’s management of the longest-running problem on its agenda, critically assessing tensions between the Organisation’s position and international law. |
Ardi Imseis, Eugene Rogan |
07 May 2024 |
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Webs of oppression’ in everyday organizing in Palestine: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis |
This talk delves into the multifaceted challenges Palestinian women activists face, revealing how intersecting oppressions within a settler-colonized society shape their organizing efforts and experiences, challenging singular analyses of patriarchy. |
Amal W Nazzal, Maryam Alemzadeh |
07 Mar 2024 |
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Graffiti, music, and football ultras: expressing dissent in MENA (Middle East and North Africa) |
Piotr Schulkes, Adam Abdallah, and Kalyani Nedungadi discuss non-official ways in expressing dissent, comparing Morocco, Turkey, Egypt, and Palestine. |
Kalyani Nedungadi, Piotr Schulkes, Adam Abdalla |
17 Dec 2021 |
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Haggai Ram - The Social Life of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel: A Global History |
Haggai Ram charts the (modern) history of Hashish in the Holy Land |
Haggai Ram |
01 Dec 2021 |
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Michael Karayanni - Religion and State among the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel: A Multicultural Entrapment |
Michael Karayanni considers how the Israeli construction of religion and politics shapes the live Palestinian-Arabs in the state. |
Michael Karayanni |
18 Nov 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 Oct 2021 |
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The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel and Juridical Warfare |
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. |
Craig Jones |
19 Feb 2021 |
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Forcing the End Times: US Christian Zionism and Israel |
Breakout session on 'Religion, Peace and Conflict.' First talk: Carlo Aldrovandi, Ph.D. candidate, Peace Studies, Univ. of Bradford, on 'Forcing the End Times: US Christian Zionism and Israel'. |
Carlo Aldrovandi |
11 Jan 2021 |
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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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Oct 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 Oct 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 |
07 Oct 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 |
08 Sep 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 |
02 Apr 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 Jan 2020 |
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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 Jun 2019 |
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Episode 8: Death Leaves Signs |
This episode, the final one of this season, features the work of Palestinian poet Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, author-in-residence at Refugee Hosts. |
Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Adriana X Jacobs |
14 Jun 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 |
06 Feb 2019 |
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Khaled Furani - Putting Israel on the Couch: A Palestinian challenge from within the Leviathan |
Khaled Furani deconstruct sovereignty, and considers some alternatives. |
Khaled Furani |
23 Jan 2019 |
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Netta Cohen - When climate takes command: Jewish-Zionist scientific approaches to climate in Palestine 1900-1948 |
How did Zionist scientist see climate in Palestine? |
Netta Cohen |
16 Jan 2019 |
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What future for Israel and Palestine? |
Dr Marwan Bishara (Academic Visitor, St Antony's College) gives a seminar for the Middle East Centre. Chaired by Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College). |
Marwan Bishara, Eugene Rogan |
07 Dec 2018 |
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Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo |
Dr Seth Anziska (Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Lecturer in Jewish-Muslim Relations, University College London), gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. |
Seth Anziska |
26 Nov 2018 |
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Book Event: On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements |
Jacqueline Rose (Birkbeck), Kfir Cohen (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute), Moshe Behar (The University of Manchester), Hakem Al-Rustom (Michigan), Ella Shohat (New York University) discuss at the book event. Chaired by Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College). |
Jacqueline Rose, Kfir Cohen, Moshe Behar, Hakem Al-Rustom |
28 Aug 2018 |
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The Question of Judeo-Arabic: Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary |
Ella Shohat (New York University) gives a lecture for the middle east centre, chaired by Yaacov Yadgar (Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies, St Anne's). Comments by Yuval Evri (SOAS). |
Ella Shohat, Yaacov Yadgar, Yuval Evri |
28 Aug 2018 |
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Bashir Abu-Manneh - Habibi’s The Pessoptimist and 1948 |
Bashir Abu-Manneh discusses Emile Habibi’s The Pessoptimist and 1948. |
Bashir Abu-Manneh |
31 May 2018 |
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Israel and Palestine: Why Britain Should Recognize the Second State |
Sir Vincent Fean KCVO, gives a talk for the Middle East Studies seminar series. |
Sir Vincent Fean |
03 Apr 2018 |
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The challenges of healthcare in Gaza |
Richard Guy (Consultant Surgeon), Omar Abdel-Mannan (Paediatrician), and Debbie Harrington (Consultant Obstetrician) talk about the challenges of healthcare in Gaza. |
Richard Guy, Omar Abdel-Mannan, Debbie Harrington |
03 Apr 2018 |
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Gaza: Martyrdom and Betrayal |
Norman G Finkelstein gives a talk for the Middle East Studies seminar series. |
Norman Finkelstein |
03 Apr 2018 |
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Yuval Evri: Andalusian Legacies: the role of al-Andalus/Sepharad in the political and cultural history of Israel/Palestine |
Yuval Evri discusses the uses of the the image of Al-Andalus in political and cultural discourses in the turn of the 20th Century. |
Yuval Evri, Yaacov Yadgar |
07 Mar 2018 |
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Almog Behar - Between Hebrew and Arabic |
The politics, culture, and reality of Hebrew and Arabic in Israel and beyond. |
Almog Behar, Yaacov Yadgar |
14 Feb 2018 |
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Writing an Arab Officer into the 1948 War for Palestine |
Professor Laila Parsons (McGill University), gives a talk for the Middle East seminar series. Chaired by Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford). |
Laila Parsons, Eugene Rogan |
09 May 2017 |
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The Role of Jerusalem in Reconciliation in Israel and Palestine |
John Bell gives a talk for the OTJR seminar series, |
John Bell |
20 May 2016 |
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Palestinian experience in building a detailed database of archaeological sites |
Dr al-Jaradat (Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Palestine) speaks of the Palestinian national inventory of cultural heritage sites, for which work began in 2002 and is still ongoing |
Mohammad al-Jaradat |
31 Mar 2016 |
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Britain and Palestine: Balfour to Blair |
Lecture presented by Professor Avi Shlaim (Middle East Centre) and Richard Makepeace (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies) at the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College on 19th February 2016. |
Avi Shlaim, Richard Makepeace |
22 Feb 2016 |
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Transitional (In)justice in Israel/Palestine |
Nimer Sultany, University of London, gives a talk for the OTJR seminar series on Monday, 1 June 2015. |
Nimer Sultany |
15 Jul 2015 |
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Which way forward? |
A talk as part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series |
Afif Safieh |
27 Mar 2015 |
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Israel - Palestine: Can Europe Save the Two-State Idea |
A talk as part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series |
Alon Liel |
27 Mar 2015 |
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How European Governments subcontract policy on Israel/Palestine to parliamentarians,civil society and businesses |
A talk as part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series |
Phyllis Starkey |
27 Mar 2015 |
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OxPeace 2013: Olive Tree Scholarship Program: Session 1B: Universities and Peacebuilding |
Yoav Bornstein and Elizabeth Jadon (Israel/Palestine) gives a talk for the OxPeace 2013 conference: The Future of Peace Building. |
Yoav Bornstein, Elizabeth Jadon |
21 May 2013 |
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RSC Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2011: Waiting for solutions in uncertain times: Palestine refugees in the Middle East context |
This podcast was recorded at the RSC Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture on 16 November 2011. The lecture was delivered by Mr Filippo Grandi, Commissioner-General of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. |
Filippo Grandi |
19 Dec 2011 |
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Protecting Palestinian children from political violence |
This podcast was recorded at a launch event for the fifth Refugee Studies Centre Policy Briefing which was held on Thursday 30th September 2010 at the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, London. |
Jason Hart, Claudia Lo Forte |
12 Jan 2011 |
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FLJS part 5: Closing Remarks: Cases of Family Reunification and use of torture |
Aharon Barak talks about the implications for human rights law of Israel barring family reunification between Palestinian and Israeli citizens. Part 5 of the 2009 Foundation for Law Justice and Society Annual Lecture. |
Aharon Barak |
24 Jul 2009 |
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2009 Annual Lecture: Human rights and their limitations: the role of proportionality |
The former President of the Israeli Supreme Court Aharon Barak addresses the appropriate balance between security and the safeguarding of human rights. |
Aharon Barak |
24 Jul 2009 |
