Events archive
MEC Seminar
Dr Mohammed Ghaly (Leiden University)
16 May 2012 - 6:00pm
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, George Street
MEC Seminar
George Joffé (Cambridge University), Michael Willis (Oxford University)
11 May 2012 - 10:15am
62 Woodstock Road, Founder's Bldg, St Antony's College
MEC Seminar
Katja Zvan Elliott
10 May 2012 - 1:45pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre’s Library
Ms Katja Zvan Elliott is a final year DPhil candidate at St Antony's. Her thesis is a critical approach to the reformed Moroccan Family Code as the symbol of the country’s professed progress in the... Read more
MEC Seminar
Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto)
9 May 2012 - 6:00pm
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, George Street
MEC Seminar
Norman Finkelstein
2 May 2012 - 7:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
Norman Finkelstein will speak on the factors currently at play -regionally, internationally, and in the US (especially among American Jews) - that make the prospects for a resolution of the conflict... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr Ayman Shihadeh (SOAS, London)
2 May 2012 - 6:00pm
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, George Street
MEC Seminar
Professor Nobuaki Kondo
1 May 2012 - 1:30pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
Nineteenth century Tehran evokes nostalgia in many of Iranian people. Tehran, the capital of Qajar Iran, frequently became the setting for movies and television dramas. A large amount of books have... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr Jasser Auda (Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies)
25 April 2012 - 6:00pm
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, George Street
The following seminars, arranged in collaboration with The Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College and the Research Centre for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) at the Qatar Faculty for Islamic... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr Khaled Fahmy (American University in Cairo)
24 April 2012 - 6:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
MEC Seminar
Dr Homa Katouzian (Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College), Djavad Salehi-Isfahani (Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Research Associate of the Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School)
12 March 2012 - 12:30pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
Investment in educating girls in developing countries is said to have the highest rate of return. In the last two decades, Iran has achieved considerable increase in the education of the country's... Read more
MEC Seminar
Mourid Barghouti (Palestinian writer and poet)
1 November 2011 - 1:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
MEC Seminar
Mohamed-Salah Omri, Michael Willis
30 October 2011 - 1:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
Sandwiches will be provided
MEC Seminar
George F. Kennan, Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, and Professor Emeritus at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor Avishai Margalit
8 June 2011 - 6:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theater, St Antony's College
The following recording of the lecture is 57 minutes long has been posted online with the permission of Professor Margalit. Professor Margalit Lecture 8 Jun 2011 (mp3 file)
MEC Seminar
Dr Homa Katouzian
7 June 2011 - 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theater, St Antony's College
Followed by the screening of ‘From No. 37’, a recent documentary on Hedayat’s life by Sam Kadantari and Mohsen Shahrnazdar (film makers based in Tehran) Followed by a reception in the Middle East... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr Nayef Al-Rodhan, Middle East Centre
7 June 2011 - 6:00pm
Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road
Published by Palgrave Macmillan Refreshments will be served Copies of the books will be on sale at this event All welcome