Events archive

Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

President and Parliament: The Egyptian Elections of 2005

Lindsay Wise (Adham Center, Cairo)
24 February 2006 - 5:00pm
The Buttery, St Antony’s College 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6JF
SEMINAR SERIES: THE POLITICS OF ELECTIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST TODAY
Nissan Lecture Theatre

Third King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Lecture: America's Kingdom: Race, State, and the Business of Myth-Making on the Saudi Oil Frontier

Professor Robert Vitalis (Professor of Political Science, Director of the Middle East Centre, University of Pennsylvania)
22 February 2006 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Followed by a reception in the Buttery.
MEC Seminar

Israel's Reprisals Policy 1953-1956, Rein in your Horses

Dr. Zeev Drory (Israeli Visiting Fellow, St Antony's College and Ben Gurion University, Department of History, Director of Military and Defence Studies)
21 February 2006 - 5:00pm
The Deakin Room, St Antony's College
MEC Seminar

Regional Scenarios in the Post-Sharon Era

Professor Efraim Inbar (President of the Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and Professor of Political Science at Bar Ilan University)
21 February 2006 - 12:45pm
The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Elections and Referenda in the Maghrib: The Illusion of Significance?

Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College)
17 February 2006 - 5:00pm
The Buttery, St Antony’s College 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6JF
SEMINAR SERIES: THE POLITICS OF ELECTIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST TODAY
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Elections and Political Change in Turkey

William Hale (SOAS)
10 February 2006 - 5:00pm
The Buttery, St Antony’s College 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6JF
SEMINAR SERIES: THE POLITICS OF ELECTIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST TODAY
MEC Seminar

Book Launch: Poetics, Politics and Protest in the Arab Theatre: The Bitter Cup and the Holy Rain

Dr Mas'ud Hamdan (Lecturer at the University of Haifa)
9 February 2006 - 5:30pm
The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Dr. Mas'ud Hamdan is a writer and lecturer at the University of Haifa (Theatre and Arabic Literature Departments). He is the recipient of The Landau Fund Price & The Yitzhak Rabin Prize, and has... Read more
MEC Seminar

Selective Evolution of Ottoman Financial Institutions in the Early Modern Era

Professor Sevket Pamuk (Professor of Economic and Economic History Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History Bogaziüi University, Turkey)
7 February 2006 - 5:30pm
The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Lebanon's Troubled Rebirth: Power, Politics and Democracy in Post-Syrian Lebanon

Paul Salem (The Fares Foundation, Beirut)
3 February 2006 - 5:00pm
The Buttery, St Antony’s College 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6JF
SEMINAR SERIES: THE POLITICS OF ELECTIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST TODAY