Monday 23 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics
  Professor Joseph Sassoon (Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University)

Wednesday 16 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: The New Turkey and its Discontents
  A drinks reception will follow the talk
  Emre Caliskan (St Antony's College, Oxford), Simon A. Waldman (King’s College London)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Friday 13 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Israel under Siege: The politics of Insecurity and the Rise of the Israeli Neo-Revisionist Right
  Raffaella Del Sarto (SAIS)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 20 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle between Faith and Reason
  Christopher de Bellaigue
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 3 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Governing Divided Egypt
  Robert Springborg (King's College, London)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Martial Arts in the Middle East
  Hatsuki Aishima (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State
  Helen Lackner (London Middle East Institute)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Are Algerian politics exhausted?
  Hugh Roberts (Tufts University)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 1 December 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The policy implications of President Rouhani 's second term
  Roham Alvandi (LSE), Amir Paivar (BBC)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Lecture: Arab Media in the New Age
  George Hawatmeh ((Jordan Radio and Television Corporation))

Thursday 3 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Film screening: Nasser's Republic, The making of Modern Egypt
  Michal Goldman (Director)

Friday 11 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Film screening: 1948
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow), Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Friday 18 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Film Screening: Through Ottoman Eyes
  Umran Safter (Director)

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar: The Archaeology of Experience of Domestic Violence against women in Iran
  Shahla Tizro (York St John University)

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar: Tale of two Omani women
  Deena Al Asfoor (St Catherine's College)

Thursday 7 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture
  Moncef Marzouki (Former President of Tunisia)

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Lecture-The Question of Judeo-Arabic: Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary
  Ella Shohat (New York University)
• 17:00 - Book Event: On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements
  Ella Shohat (New York University)

Thursday 14 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Workshop: Memory, Memoirs, and History
  Ella Shohat (New York University), Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Lords of the Desert: Britain’s struggle with America to dominate the Middle East
  James Barr ((King's College London))
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch: Khalil Maleki -The Human Face of Iranian Socialism
  Homa Katouzian (Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow, St Antony's)

Wednesday 24 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar- Between Love and Lineage: Elopement, Rights and Violence in an Afghan Valley
  Naysan Adlparvar (Yale University)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Preventing Palestine: A political history from Camp David to Oslo
  Seth Anziska (Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Lecturer in Jewish-Muslim Relations, University College London)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Christian Martyrs under Islam
  Christian C. Sahner (Associate Professor of Islamic History, Faculty of Oriental Studies)

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Iraq after the elections: A new beginning? (Panel discussion)
  Renad Mansour (Chatham House), Harith Hasan (Central European University), Hayder al-Khoei (University of Exeter)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Film screening and book discussion - Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid
  Ali Mirsepassi (Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Between Conservatism and Pragmatism: Crafting a human rights-based approach to HIV/AIDS related services for women in the Middle East
  Dr Kamiar Alaei (Co-president, Institute for International Health and Education)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - And then God created the Middle East and said let there be breaking news
  Karl Sharro (Architect, satirist and Middle East commentator)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The future of Israel, its Arab minority and implication for Palestine
  Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera/St Antony's College)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Sheikh Zayed Book Award: Contemporary Arab Fiction - Event cancelled
  Khalil Sweileh, Abdel Rasheed Mahmoudi

Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Exhibition and Panel Discussion: The Palestinian History Tapestry
  Shelagh Weir (Former Curator, British Museum), Jan.Lady Chalmers (Palestinian History Tapestry), Doaa Hammoudeh (St Antony’s College), Karl Sabbagh (Documentary maker and writer)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Israel Studies Seminar - When Climate Takes Command: Jewish-Zionist Scientific Approaches to Climate in Palestine
  Ms. Netta Cohen ((Oxford))
  Israel Studies Seminar series Hilary Term 2019

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Applying shari'a in modern times: Some reflections from 19th century Egypt
  Khaled Fahmy (Cambridge University)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - The Middle East: Should We Give Up?
  Joost Hiltermann (International Crisis Group)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Seminar - The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat
  Relli Shechter (St Antony’s College)

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - European policy on the Middle East: Making a difference?
  Nick Westcott (Director, Royal African Society)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - The Iraq War Inquiry: a study in contemporary political, diplomatic, military and reconstruction history
  Sir John Chilcot
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Friday 15 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - title tbc
  Abbas Kadhim (Atlantic Council)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Wednesday 20 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar - From Kurdistan to Europe: Kurdish Literary, Artistic and Cultural Activism by Kurdish Women Intellectuals
  Dr Özlem Belçim Galip (Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Struggles for Justice during the Arab Uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia
  Heba Morayef (Amnesty International)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Seminar - Revolution in Iran 1978-1979: Assessments and Reassessments upon the Fortieth Anniversary
  Touraj Atabaki (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam), Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford), Siavush Ranjbar Daemi (University of St Andrews)

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Lebanon and the twenty-first century: populism, neoliberalism, and their discontents
  Andrew Arsan (University of Cambridge)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Seminar: Iran and sanctions
  Zep Kalb (UCLA), James Landale (BBC)

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Inside Tunisia’s al-Nahda: Between Politics and Preaching
  Rory McCarthy (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Trafficking and slavery under ISIS: Trauma and rehabilitation of Yezidi female survivors
  Behnaz Hosseini (University of Vienna)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Film screening: The Eastern
  TBA
• 17:00 - Situating the Study of Islam in Global Intellectual History: Toshihiko Izutsu's Middle-Earth
  TBA

Saturday 25 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Workshop -Neither Near Nor Far: Encounters and Exchanges between Japan and the Middle East
  TBA

Friday 31 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture: The 1953 Roots of 1979
  Ervand Abrahamian

Wednesday 5 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Women's Football and Futsal in Iran - their challenges and struggles
  Tomoko Yamagishi (St Antony's College)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar

Friday 14 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Lecture and Book Launch- The politics of family law reform in Jordan and Morocco: Two seemingly similar monarchies, two different approaches
  Dr Dörthe Engelcke (Max Planck Institute, Hamburg)

Thursday 20 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - George Antonius Memorial Lecture
  Dr Saeb Erekat (Palestine Liberation Organization Negotiation Affairs Department)

Friday 18 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution
  Dr Walter Armbrust (MEC Albert Hourani Fellow)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch - Palestinian Refugees in International Law | Middle East Centre and Refugee Studies Centre event
  Lex Takkenberg ((Former chief of the Ethics Office at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)), Francesca Albanese ((The Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM),Georgetown University))
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch - “Deep States and Deep Troubles in the MENA,” Palestinian multilingualism: A perfectly normal adaptation to colonialism, conflict and late capitalism
  Professor Robert Springborg ((Kings College London))

Friday 16 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Dictatorship Syndrome (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Alaa Al Aswany

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Challenging the Limited View - The Case of the Women in Mosques Movement (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Dr Yildirim
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Apocalymbo: Trickster Politics in the Age of the Pandemic (and Other Crises) (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Dr Walter Armbrust (MEC Albert Hourani Fellow)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Qatari Women and the Labour Market- Towards an Empowering Alternative
  Dr. Mawahib Abubakr (Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Arab and the Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond
  Bashir Bashir (Open University of Israel), Leila Farsakh (University of Massachusetts Boston), Amal Ghazal (Simon Fraser University), Brian Klug (Universiy of Oxford), Hadeel Abu Hussein (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 24 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Debating the Law, Creating Gender
  Professor Irene Schneider ((Georg-August-Universität Göttingen))
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 12 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - 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)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Friday 21 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - War on Bodies: Moral Immunity and the Psychopolitics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran
  Dr Orkideh Behrouzan (SOAS University of London), Dr Maziyar Ghiabi (Wellcome Trust Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)

Saturday 22 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Sudanese Programme - Youth, Inclusivity and Participation in Politics, the Economy and Society
  Various Speakers

Thursday 27 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:00 - Oxford Syria Society Event with Dr. Sami Moubayed and Dr. Eugene Rogan: On the Syrian National Congress of 1919
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 2 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Negotiating Respectability between the Space of the Prison and the Place of Woman, Egypt 1946-1965.
  Dr Hannah Elsisi (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge)

Monday 11 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives - Opening session
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Cyrus Schayegh, Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford)
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Friday 15 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East
  Various Speakers

Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Transnationalism in the Middle East
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Marral Shamshiri-Fard, Jeremy Randall, Fadi Kafeety, Dr Toby Matthiesen (LSE), Golnar Nikpour
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Monday 25 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - A Global Palestine
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Sune Haugbolle, Pelle Valentin Olsen, Sorcha Thomson, Ilan Pappé
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Monday 1 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Maoism in the Middle East and North Africa
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Jiayi Zhu, William Figueroa, Leonard Michael, Idriss Jebari, Afshin Matin-Asgari
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Monday 8 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Late Pahlavi Iran
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Ali Mirsepassi, Arash Azizi, Siavush Ranjbar Daemi, Edmund Herzig
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Wednesday 10 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy?
  Registration essential
  Youssef Cherif (Director, Columbia Global Centers|Tunis), Dr Anne Wolf (Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford)

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Lebanon
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Nathaniel George, Yvonne Albers, Zeina Maasri, Fadi Bardawil
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Social Change through Presence: White Marriage in Iran
  Dr Maral Sahebjame (Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Washington)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - The Developmental State
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Touraj Atabaki, Max Ajl, Philip Marfleet, Cyrus Schayegh
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Gender in the Global Middle East and North Africa
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Faika Çelik, Aliye Gamze Sarıtunalı, Amy Kallander, Hannah Elsisi Ashmawi, Laleh Khalili
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives