Events archive

Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)

Dalia Fahmy (Long Island University) editor of Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy (2017) , Daanish Faruqi (Duke), ditor of Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy (2017)
30 October 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
ZOOM
This talk will address the dictatorship syndrome specifically through the lens of liberalism in Egypt. It will seek to address why a particular denomination of Egyptian liberalism, despite at face... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Challenging the Limited View - The Case of the Women in Mosques Movement (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)

Dr Mine Yildirim
28 October 2020 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Challenging the Limited View - The Case of the Women in Mosques Movement The place of women in the religious space of mosques in Turkey has been a long debate- more so recently. The Women in Mosques... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar

Hadeel Abu Hussein - Palestinian Arab Citizens in Israel, Equality Struggle

Hadeel Abu Hussein (Research fellow at the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford University
27 October 2020 - 2:15pm
Virtual Seminar
Teams virtual meeting link: URL: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ODQ2MjY5ODYtMzg0Y... Abstract: This paper addresses the historical stages of the Palestinian Arab citizens in... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

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), author of The Quest for Authority in Iran: a history of the presidency from revolution to Rouhani (2017)
23 October 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
ZOOM
Scholars have shown the dictatorial function of the parallel political system of the Islamic Republic: although the authoritarian office of supreme leadership and the security apparatuses strictly... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

The Dictatorship Syndrome (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)

Alaa Al Aswany, author of The Dictatorship Syndrome (2019)
16 October 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
ZOOM
REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8016019718162/WN_2rDjqUTcT5-ddp... Alaa Al Aswany is Egypt’s most celebrated novelist and essayist whose books are runaway... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar

Sandy Kedar - Emptied Lands: A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev

Sandy Kedar (Haifa)
13 October 2020 - 2:15pm
Virtual Seminar
Teams URL seminar link: URL: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZGRmZGY4NjAtN2FmZ... Abstract: Kedar will present his book, Emptied Lands (co-authored with Amara and Yiftachel).... Read more