Wednesday 18 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Feminists in the eyes of God: theories and practices of queer Muslim women in Britain
  Dr Benjamin Dubrulle (Maison Française d'Oxford)
  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)

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)

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

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - Dr Hussam Hussein - The politics of water scarcity in the case of Jordan
  Registration is essential
  Dr. Hussam Hussein, Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR, Oxford Martin School Fellow in Water Diplomacy, and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Exclusion and Resistance: The Betrayal of the Afghan Peace Process
  Registration essential
  Lina Tori Jan (St. Antony’s College | Master of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its Afterlives
  Registration essential.
  Dr. Jamie Furniss, Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (Tunis)/Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series -Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf
  Dr. Manal Shehabi, Academic Visitor, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford; Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation
  Registration essential
  Dr Mattin Biglari (SOAS London)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

Friday 19 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq
  Registration essential
  Dr Michael Mason (Director of the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Climate, Colonialism, and Zionism in Palestine (1882-1948): New Historiographical Perspectives
  Dr Netta Cohen (Christ Church, Oxford University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East
  Registration essential
  Dr Christian Henderson, Assistant Professor at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

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

Friday 23 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Authoritarian or Revolutionary? Reflections on the Nature of the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Maryam Alemzadeh ((Princeton)), Siavush Randjbar-Daemi ((St Andrews))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 30 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Dalia Fahmy ((Long Island University)), Daanish Faruqi ((Duke))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - The Trajectory of the Tunisian Revolution: between Continuities and Disjunctures (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Professor Sami Zemni ((Ghent))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There
  Dr Lina Khatib ((Chatham)), Jeremy Bowen ((BBC News))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Ece Temelkuran
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 22 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Algeria and Sudan: A Late Spring or an Early Summer?
  Mohanad Hashim (BBC), Dalia Ghanem (Carnegie)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism?
  Maha Yahya ((Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre)), Maysoun Pachachi ((Film Director))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 5 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Place of Religion After the Uprisings
  Shadi Hamid (Brookings), Nadia Oweidat (University of Kansa)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

Friday 12 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Libya: Past, Present and Future
  Anas al-Gomati (Sadeq Institute), Mary Fitzgerald (King's College London)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 19 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Russia and the Arab Uprisings
  Vitaly Naumkin (Russian Academy of Sciences), Alexey Vasiliev (Russian Academy of Sciences)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Tunisia – Unfinished Revolutions (Held jointly with the British-Tunisian Society)
  Hela Ammar, Mohamed Kerrou (University of Tunis El Manar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 5 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - 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)), Dr Sahar Mohamed Khamis ((University of Maryland))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture - Iran and the Arab Uprisings: Opportunity Grasped or Squandered?
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 30 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 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))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

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 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - Dr Hussam Hussein - The politics of water scarcity in the case of Jordan
  Registration is essential
  Dr. Hussam Hussein, Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR, Oxford Martin School Fellow in Water Diplomacy, and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its Afterlives
  Registration essential.
  Dr. Jamie Furniss, Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (Tunis)/Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series -Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf
  Dr. Manal Shehabi, Academic Visitor, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford; Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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)

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation
  Registration essential
  Dr Mattin Biglari (SOAS London)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 19 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq
  Registration essential
  Dr Michael Mason (Director of the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Climate, Colonialism, and Zionism in Palestine (1882-1948): New Historiographical Perspectives
  Dr Netta Cohen (Christ Church, Oxford University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East
  Registration essential
  Dr Christian Henderson, Assistant Professor at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series