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Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Why Egypt’s 2011 Uprising Has Failed to deliver on its Promise?

Mr Tarek Osman (The author of Egypt on the Brink)
23 January 2015 - 5:00pm
Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
MIDDLE EAST CENTRE FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES: The state of Egypt, the State of Palestine Tarek Osman, a political-economist focused on the Arab world, is the author of the international bestseller “Egypt... Read more
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
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
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
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
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
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

The Saudi-Iranian rivalry: filling contested vacuums in the Middle East

Matteo Legrenzi (Ca’Foscari University, Venice)
31 October 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
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Iraq and Syria: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising

Patrick Cockburn (Middle East Correspondent, The Independent)
24 October 2014 - 6:00pm
Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
MIDDLE EAST CENTRE FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES: A Polarized Middle East
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: The Racial Formations of the Chosen People in the Chosen Land.

Prof Smadar Lavie (University of California, Berkeley)
17 October 2014 - 6:00pm
MIDDLE EAST CENTRE FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES: A Polarized Middle East
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans and Empires in Oman 1965-1976

Dr Abdel Razzaq Takriti (Sheffield University)
28 February 2014 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

The Historical ethnography of the 1979 revolution in Iran

Naghmeh Sohrabi (Brandeis University)
21 February 2014 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Free Press and Political Power: Morocco 1992 – 2012

Driss Ksikes (Founding Editor of Tel Quel and Nichane)
14 February 2014 - 5:30pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

One people, one goal, one faith”? Balkanisation, Tuareg Separatism and Political Islam in the Sahei region.

Berny Sѐbe (Birmingham University)
7 February 2014 - 5:30pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Fraticide and autocracy: The clash of two political Islams in Turkey

Dr Kerem Oktem (European Studies Centre, Oxford University)
7 February 2014 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival in the Western Sahara

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University)
31 January 2014 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre

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