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Middle East Centre: Past Seminars, Lectures and Conferences

Programme for Michaelmas Term 2011

  • Seminar: From the Death of Sally Zahran to the Trial of Hosny Mubarak: Martyrs and the January 25th Revolution in Egypt 14 Oct 2011
  • Seminar: The Gulf States and the Arab Spring: Autocracy in Question 21 Oct 2011
  • Discussion: Consolidating the Arab Spring: Tunisia’s First Democratic Elections 31 Oct 2011
  • Seminar: Palestinian Mourid Barghouti's memoir ‘I was Born There, I was Born Here’ 1 Nov 2011
  • Seminar: The Sacking of Syria: Asad as Hulegu 4 Nov 2011
  • Seminar: Genesis: The Tunisian Revolution 11 Nov 2011
  • Seminar: Morocco and the Arab Spring: Evolution not Revolution? 18 Nov 2011
  • Seminar: Libya - revolution or regression? 2 Dec 2011

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    Friday Seminar Series: The Arab Spring

    Seminars will be held on Fridays at 5.00 p.m. in the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, apart from the seminar in 8th week which will be at 5.30 p.m.

    October 14th (1st week)
    Dr Walter Armbrust
    St Antony’s College (on sabbatical leave in Cairo 2010-2012)
    ‘From the Death of Sally Zahran to the Trial of Hosny Mubarak: Martyrs and the January 25th Revolution in Egypt.’

    October 21st (2nd week)
    Dr Christopher Davidson
    Durham University
    ‘The Gulf States and the Arab Spring: Autocracy in Question’

    October 28th (3rd week)
    Dr Hussein Agha
    St Antony’s College
    ‘Palestine and the Arab Spring’

    November 4th (4th week)
    Rana Kabbani
    Syrian Writer and Broadcaster
    ‘The Sacking of Syria: Asad as Hulegu’

    November 11th (5th week)
    Mohamed-Salah Omri
    St John’s College
    ‘Genesis: The Tunisian Revolution’

    November 18th (6th week)
    Dr Driss Maghraoui
    Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
    ‘Morocco and the Arab Spring: Evolution not Revolution?’

    November 25th (7th week)
    Helen Lackner
    Co-author of ‘Yemen into the Twenty-First Century’
    ‘The Arab Spring and Yemen’s Ongoing Crisis’

    December 2nd (8th week) 5.30pm
    George Joffé
    Cambridge University
    ‘Libya - revolution or regression?’

    Discussion: ‘Consolidating the Arab Spring: Tunisia’s First Democratic Elections’

    Michael Willis and Mohamed-Salah Omri

    On Monday 31 October at 1 pm

    Location: The Middle East Centre
    68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

    All welcome

    Sandwiches will be provided

    Seminar

    ‘I was Born There, I was Born Here’

    Mourid Barghouti
    Palestinian writer and poet will talk about his new memoir

    On Tuesday 1 November at 5.15 p.m.

    Location: The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

    All welcome

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