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| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 216 | Creative Commons | The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty | Professor Joseph Sassoon in conversation with Dr Michael Willis about his recent book, The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty (Allen Lane, Penguin Group, 2022). Emeritus Professor Avi Shlaim joins them. | Joseph Sassoon, Michael Willis, Avi Shlaim, Eugene Rogan | 24 Mar 2022 |
| 215 | Creative Commons | All Jihad Is Local: the Micro-Politics of Militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and Beyond | Dr Raphaël Lefèvre in conversation with Dr Neil Ketchley about his recent book, 'Jihad in the City: Militant Islamism and Contentious Politics in Tripoli' (Cambridge University Press, 2021). | Raphael Lefevre, Neil Ketchley | 16 Mar 2022 |
| 214 | Sovereignty | Neguin Yavari speaking on ‘Islamic imperatives and Islamic rulers’, Samy Ayoub speaking on ‘Law and the Exercise of Power: Debates on Political Legitimacy and Authority in the 19th - 20th centuries Egypt’. | Neguin Yavari, Samy Ayoub, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami | 02 Mar 2022 | |
| 213 | The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt | Marilyn Booth speaking on her new book. | Marilyn Booth | 02 Mar 2022 | |
| 212 | Creative Commons | Religion | Madawi al-Rasheed speaking on ‘Islamic Reform in Saudi Arabia between “the Violence of the Minority and the Apathy of the Majority”. Pascal Menoret speaking on ‘Graveyard of Clerics’. | Madawi al-Rasheed, Pascal Menoret, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami | 02 Mar 2022 |
| 211 | Creative Commons | Caliphate | Elizabeth Alexandrin speaking on ‘Empire of the End Time: Fāṭimid Sovereignties in the 4th Century AH/11th Century CE’. Hüseyin Yilmaz speaking on ‘The Ottomans and the Question of the Caliphate'. | Elizabeth Alexandrin, Hüseyin Yilmaz, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami | 01 Mar 2022 |
| 210 | Creative Commons | The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution | Dr Neil Ketchley in conversation with Professor Walter Armbrust about his current research. | Neil Ketchley, Walter Armbrust | 03 Feb 2022 |
| 209 | Islam and the Arab Revolutions – the Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy | Join us as we listen to Dr Usaama al-Azami (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford) in conversation about his new book, 'Islam and the Arab Revolutions, the Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy'. | Usaama al-Azami, Michael Willis | 31 Jan 2022 | |
| 208 | 2022 New Year’s Episode | The entire Almanac team gets together to discuss what they believe was the most important event in the region over the past year, something they are watching for in the region in 2022, and their favorite book on the Middle East. | Piotr Schulkes, Guy Fiennes, Isabella Cibelli Du Terroil, Oliver Franks | 17 Jan 2022 | |
| 207 | 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 | |
| 206 | Creative Commons | What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East? | This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 3rd December 2021 for the Middle East Centre | Christian Henderson, Walter Armbrust | 08 Dec 2021 |
| 205 | Creative Commons | Afghanistan and the Middle East | This is a recording of a live webinar held on Thursday 25th November 2021 for the Middle East centre. | Ibrahim al-Marashi, Michael Willis, Kate Clark | 06 Dec 2021 |
| 204 | Creative Commons | Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq | This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 19th November 2021 for the MEC. | Michael Willis, Michael Mason | 01 Dec 2021 |
| 203 | Creative Commons | Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation | This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 12th November 2021 for the MEC. Dr Mattin Biglari (SOAS, University of London) presents “Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation”. | Stephanie Cronin, Mattin Biglari | 01 Dec 2021 |
| 202 | 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 | |
| 201 | The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy? | On 25 July 2021 Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the government and suspended parliament, subsequently employing the army and security forces around government buildings to thwart any opposition to his power grab. | Youssef Cherif, Anne Wolf, Michael Willis | 25 Nov 2021 | |
| 200 | Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf | Oil price volatility and accelerated energy transitions away from hydrocarbons to meet climate change mitigation measures have presented existential threats to the economies of hydrocarbon-dependent welfare states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). | Manal Shehabi, Walter Armbrust, Michael Willis | 22 Nov 2021 | |
| 199 | Amnon Aran - Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Cold War | Amnon Aran maps the development of Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Cold War | Amnon Aran | 18 Nov 2021 | |
| 198 | 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 | |
| 197 | The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its afterlives | This is a recording of a live webinar held on 29th October 2021 for the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East. | jamie furniss, Walter Armbrust | 17 Nov 2021 | |
| 196 | The Politics of Water Scarcity in the Case of Jordan | Dr Hussam Hussein investigates the construction of the discourse of water scarcity in Jordan, and the political economy of the water sector. | Hussam Hussein, Neil Ketchley, Michael Willis | 11 Nov 2021 | |
| 195 | Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East | MEC Friday Webinar. This is a recording of a live webinar held on 15th October 2021 for the first episode of the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East. | Michael J. Willis, Walter Armbrust, Laurent Mignon, Usaama al-Azami | 04 Nov 2021 | |
| 194 | Creative Commons | Eldad Ben Aharon - Supporting Denial: Israel’s Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide | Eldad Ben-Aharon charts the history of Israel's refusal to recognise the Armenian Genocide. | Eldad Ben-Aharon | 03 Nov 2021 |
| 193 | Creative Commons | Kathrin Bachleitner - A road towards atonement? Why only West Germany came to “atone” for the Nazi crimes. | Kathrin Bachleitner remaps the road that led to Germany's "atonement" for the Holocaust | Kathrin Bachleitner | 27 Oct 2021 |
| 192 | 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 Oct 2021 | |
| 191 | Creative Commons | 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 |
| 190 | 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 | 06 Oct 2021 | |
| 189 | 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 Sep 2021 | |
| 188 | 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 Jun 2021 | |
| 187 | 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 | |
| 186 | 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 | |
| 185 | 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 | 07 May 2021 | |
| 184 | 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 Apr 2021 | |
| 183 | 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 Apr 2021 | |
| 182 | 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 Apr 2021 | |
| 181 | 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 Mar 2021 | |
| 180 | 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 Mar 2021 | |
| 179 | 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 Mar 2021 | |
| 178 | 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 Mar 2021 | |
| 177 | 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 | 09 Mar 2021 | |
| 176 | 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 | 09 Mar 2021 | |
| 175 | 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 | 04 Mar 2021 | |
| 174 | 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 Feb 2021 | |
| 173 | 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 Feb 2021 | |
| 172 | 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 Feb 2021 | |
| 171 | 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 Feb 2021 | |
| 170 | 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 Feb 2021 | |
| 169 | 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 Feb 2021 | |
| 168 | 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 | 09 Feb 2021 | |
| 167 | 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 | 07 Feb 2021 | |
| 166 | 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 | 02 Feb 2021 | |
| 165 | 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 Jan 2021 | |
| 164 | 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 | 26 Jan 2021 | |
| 163 | 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 Jan 2021 | |
| 162 | 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 Jan 2021 | |
| 161 | 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 Jan 2021 | |
| 160 | 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 | 09 Dec 2020 | |
| 159 | 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 | 03 Dec 2020 | |
| 158 | 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 | 03 Dec 2020 | |
| 157 | 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 | 01 Dec 2020 | |
| 156 | Creative Commons | 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 Nov 2020 |
| 155 | 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 Nov 2020 | |
| 154 | ‘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 Nov 2020 | |
| 153 | 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 | |
| 152 | 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 Nov 2020 | |
| 151 | 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 | |
| 150 | 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 Nov 2020 | |
| 149 | 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 Nov 2020 | |
| 148 | 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 Nov 2020 | |
| 147 | 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 | 06 Nov 2020 | |
| 146 | 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 | 04 Nov 2020 | |
| 145 | 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 | 03 Nov 2020 | |
| 144 | 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 | 02 Nov 2020 | |
| 143 | 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 | |
| 142 | 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 Oct 2020 | |
| 141 | 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 | |
| 140 | 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 Oct 2020 | |
| 139 | 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 | |
| 138 | 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 Sep 2020 | |
| 137 | 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 | |
| 136 | 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 | |
| 135 | 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 Feb 2020 | |
| 134 | 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 Feb 2020 | |
| 133 | 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 Feb 2020 | |
| 132 | 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 Feb 2020 | |
| 131 | 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 | 07 Feb 2020 | |
| 130 | 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 | 05 Feb 2020 | |
| 129 | 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 Jan 2020 | |
| 128 | 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 Jan 2020 | |
| 127 | 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 Jan 2020 | |
| 126 | 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 Jan 2020 | |
| 125 | Creative Commons | 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 |
| 124 | Creative Commons | 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 | 03 Dec 2019 |
| 123 | Creative Commons | 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 Nov 2019 |
| 122 | Creative Commons | 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 Nov 2019 |
| 121 | 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 Nov 2019 | |
| 120 | Creative Commons | 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 Nov 2019 |
| 119 | Creative Commons | 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 | 06 Nov 2019 |
| 118 | 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 | 05 Nov 2019 | |
| 117 | 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 Oct 2019 |
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