Events archive
MEC Seminar
Dalal Musaed Alsayer (Kuwait University), Samia Henni (Cornell University), Menna Agha (Carelton University), Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (Brown University)
15 November 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre
3 of the 4 co-authors that are presenting tonight will join us online from the USA. Abstract: (taken from publisher's website) Colonial and imperial powers have often portrayed arid lands as “empty”... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr John McManus, Associate Fellow, British Institute at Ankara
8 November 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Abstract: The small Gulf nation of Qatar will soon play host to the world’s largest event — the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup. But what is life really like in this nation that, just 75 years ago, was a... Read more
MEC Seminar
Helen Lackner (SOAS University of London)
1 November 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Book abstract: Focusing on the fundamental reasons underlying the lasting crisis of the Yemeni Civil War, this book frames contemporary Yemen and assesses prospects beyond the conflict, identifying... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr Aaron White Rock-Singer (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
26 October 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
ZOOM Online
Registration essential, register here to receive your personal ZOOM link Abstract: Salafis explicitly base their legitimacy on continuity with the Quran and the Sunna, and their distinctive practices... Read more
MEC Seminar
Ian Martin
25 October 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Join us for our next book launch in our Michaelmas Term Tuesday series. All welcome. No need to register, just turn up. Ian Martin presents his latest book on Libya: All Necessary Measures? The... Read more
MEC Seminar
Jeremy Bowen (BBC's Middle East Editor)
18 October 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
The Making of the Modern Middle East A Personal History JEREMY BOWEN To be published in hardback on 1 September 2022 9781509890897| £20.00| EBOOK| 9781509890903| £16.99 A vivid and authoritative... Read more
MEC Seminar
Fadi Bardawil, Duke University, Nadia Bou Ali
22 June 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Virtual: Zoom Webinar
**I regret to inform that tomorrow’s above webinar is cancelled due to a Covid breakout. We do hope to be able to reschedule this meeting for next term** A fortnightly seminar on political thought... Read more
MEC Seminar
Diana Buttu (IMEU Communications Director, DAWN Fellow)
16 June 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St.Antony's College
Biography: Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and analyst based in Haifa. Diana previously worked as a legal advisor the Palestinian negotiating team and later to President Mahmoud Abbas.... Read more
MEC Seminar
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern University, Rushain Abbasi, Stanford University,
15 June 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Virtual: Zoom Webinar
A fortnightly seminar on political thought hosted by the Middle East Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford. Convened by Faisal Devji (St Antony's College) and Usaama al-Azami (St.Antony's College).... Read more
MEC Seminar
Maria Malmström, Lund University, Usaama al-Azami, University of Oxford
25 May 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Virtual: Zoom Webinar
A fortnightly seminar on political thought hosted by the Middle East Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford. Convened by Faisal Devji (St Antony's College) and Usaama al-Azami (St.Antony's College).... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr. Djene Rhys Bajalan
24 May 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St.Antony's College
The notion that the trajectory of Kurdish political activism inevitably leads to separatism is widely held amongst political elites in Ankara, Tehran, Baghdad, and Damascus. Indeed, in certain ways,... Read more
MEC Seminar
Roger Hardy (Former Middle East analyst with the BBC World Service)
3 May 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre
‘A History of Palestine in Twelve Photographs’ Roger Hardy Photography is an underused resource in the study of modern Palestine. Photographers, both Western and local, suffered from religious,... Read more
MEC Seminar
29 April 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Middle East Centre Board Room, St Antony's College
With the author Sylvie Thénault (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Book launch: Les ratonnades d’Alger, 1956. Une histoire sociale du racisme colonial (Seuil, 2022) (Algiers’ lynching, 1956. A social... Read more
MEC Seminar
24 February 2022 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St.Antony's College
Director: Krzysztof Dzięciołowski, DOP: Andrew Carter, Producers: Łukasz Bluszcz & Justyna Rutkowska, Editor: Marcin Szulc, Local Producer: Patricia Bou Nassif, Music: Zeid Hamdan, Additional... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr Christopher M. Davidson (Associate fellow, RUSI), Dr Guy Burton (Adjunct Professor, Brussels School of Governance), Dr Diana Galeeva (Academic Visitor to St. Antony’s College, Oxford University)
16 February 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre/ ZOOM Online Webinar
The collapse of the Soviet Union marked the end of the Cold War, ushering in a more unipolar global order, including US hegemony in the MENA region. Over the subsequent twenty years, the unchallenged... Read more