Events archive

Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Overcoming Polarization in Tunisia

Selim Ben Abdessalem (Member of the Tunisian National Constituent Assembly), Said Ferjani (Ennahda party)

5 December 2014 - 5:00pm

MIDDLE EAST CENTRE FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES: A Polarized Middle East

MEC Seminar

Egypt’s squandered – but not gone – revolution

Hisham Hellyer (Brookings/RUSI)

2 December 2014 - 5:00pm

Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Yemen: From Secular youthful hopes to Huthi dominance of the State

Helen Lackner (Independent Researcher, Author of Why Yemen Matters, Saqi Books, 2014)

28 November 2014 - 5:00pm

Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

MIDDLE EAST CENTRE FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES: A Polarized Middle East

MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Gender issues in Yemen; women’s choices

Helen Lackner (Independent Researcher, Author of Why Yemen Matters, Saqi Books, 2014)

26 November 2014 - 12:45pm

Middle East Centre, Library Seminar Room

Outline Helen will discuss changes in women’s choices in the past two decades, focusing on the impact of economic difficulties on women’s social and legal status. She will address the changes in... Read more

MEC Seminar

Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War

Roham Alvandi (LSE)

25 November 2014 - 5:00pm

Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Polarized Bahrain - Event cancelled

Amal Khalaf (Projects Curator at Serpentine Gallery)

21 November 2014 - 5:00pm

Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

MEC Seminar

Culture impériale dans le système politique marocain

Mohamed Tozy (l'École de gouvernance et d'économie de Rabat)

18 November 2014 - 5:00pm

Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

Lecture in French

View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building

Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Inside Libya's civil war

Claudia Gazzini (International Crisis group)

14 November 2014 - 5:00pm

Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

MIDDLE EAST CENTRE FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES: A Polarized Middle East

MEC Seminar

Syria, Iraq and ISIL: What is the Right Thing to Do?

Jon Wilks (CMG, UK Ambasador for Syria)

11 November 2014 - 5:00pm

Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Turkey: Polarisation and the Pursuit of Power

Gamon McLellan (SOAS, University of London)

7 November 2014 - 5:00pm

Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

MIDDLE EAST CENTRE FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES: A Polarized Middle East

MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

The Glass House

Marjaneh Halati (CEO of the OMID Foundations)

5 November 2014 - 5:00pm

Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, 62 Woodstock Rd. OX2 6JF

The fringes of Iranian society can be a lonely place, especially if you are a teenage girl with few resources to fall back on. The film follows four girls striving to pull themselves out of the... Read more

MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Modern Muslim Motherhood: Incorporating "excessive parenting" model

Dr Mastoureh Fathi

5 November 2014 - 12:45pm

Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

Abstract In recent years, there has been a new approach to parenting practices, based on constant surveillance, control, guilt, fear and anxiety. These parenting paradigms, aimed at ‘preventing’... Read more