Events archive
MEC Seminar
Dr Philip Mansel
25 April 2016 - 5:00pm
Auditorium, Investcorp Building
MEC Seminar
Dr Relli Shechter (Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
24 February 2016 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium
MEC Seminar
Dr Gilles Dorronsoro (Nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment, previously professor of political science at the Sorbonne in Paris and the Institute of Political Studies of Rennes), Arthur Quesnay (PhD candidate in the sectarian conflict in Iraq in Political science at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University), Adam Baczko (PhD candidate at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris) and Research Fellow at the Noria South Asia Program)
22 February 2016 - 5:00pm
Auditorium, Investcorp Building
Co-hosted by Maison française d'Oxford and the Middle East Centre: Adam Baczko is a Junior Research Fellow at the ERC-funded CivilWars program, Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a Phd candidate in... Read more
MEC Seminar
Sir Adam Roberts (Emeritus Professor of International Relations, Oxford University), Dr Michael Willis (HM King Mohammed VI Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies, Middle East Centre), Rory McCarthy (DPhil candidate, Oxford University), Professor Timothy Garton Ash (Professor of European Studies, European Studies Centre)
16 February 2016 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium
MEC Seminar
The Rt Hon Sir Alan Duncan MP, The Rt Hon Alistair Burt MP, Philip Lee MP, Charlotte Leslie MP, Kwasi Kwarteng MP, Julian Brazier MP, Richard Bacon MP
11 February 2016 - 5:30pm
Auditorium, Investcorp Building
MEC Seminar
Habib Battah (Research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism)
10 February 2016 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium
MEC Seminar
Dr Seth Anziska (Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL)
9 February 2016 - 5:00pm
Auditorium, Investcorp Building
This event is jointly organised with the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies.
MEC Seminar
Roger Hardy (former Middle East and Islamic affairs analyst with the BBC World Service)
17 November 2015 - 5:00pm
Lecture Theatre, Investcorp Building, Middle East Centre
The BBC's worldwide authority is based on its claim to be balanced and impartial -- and to speak truth to power. Roger Hardy -- who was for twenty-four years a Middle East and Islamic affairs analyst... Read more
MEC Seminar
Fadi Zaghmout (author of "The Bride of Amman")
10 November 2015 - 5:00pm
Lecture Theatre, Investcorp Building, Middle East Centre
Join Fadi Zaghmout and translator Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp for a frank discussion of LGBT and women’s rights, as they present the new English translation of The Bride of Amman , a fast-paced novel... Read more
MEC Seminar
Guney Yildiz (Journalist, BBC News), Laurent Mignon (Associate Professor of Turkish; Fellow in Turkish, Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College), Gamon McLellan (Teaching Fellow in Turkish, SOAS)
9 November 2015 - 5:00pm
Auditorium, Investcorp Building
MEC Seminar
David Sims (author of "Egypt's Desert Dreams: Development or Disaster")
3 November 2015 - 5:00pm
Lecture Theatre, Investcorp Building, Middle East Centre
In Egypt, informal (illegal) development now produces housing for the great majority of urban inhabitants, and in Tunisia it is approaching a majority. These two countries – the only Arab Spring... Read more
MEC Seminar
Cengiz Çandar (al-Monitor and Radikal)
28 October 2015 - 5:00pm
Lecture Theatre, Investcorp Building, Middle East Centre
Cengiz Çandar is a journalist. He is currently the senior columnist of daily Radikal in Turkey and a columnist of Al Monitor. After completing his studies in political science, he had a brief career... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli (Ben Gurion University and Academic Visitor at St Antony’s)
5 June 2015 - 6:00pm
Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli is a post-doctoral researcher from Sapir College, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Her research is focused on modern Morocco. Her MA thesis dealt with "The... Read more
MEC Seminar
Guy Laron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
15 May 2015 - 6:00pm
MEC Library Reading Room, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Guy Laron is a Lecturer in the International Relations Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and visiting fellow at St. Antony’s College (2014-2015). Previously he had been a visiting scholar at... Read more
MEC Seminar
Bernard Wasserstein (The University of Chicago)
12 February 2015 - 5:00pm
Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
MEC-Israel Studies co-sponsored event