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Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Elie Podeh
8 May 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Bio: Elie Podeh is Bamberger and Fuld Professor in the History of the Muslim Peoples in the Department of Islamic and Middle East Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He serves as the... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Professor of International Relations in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University)
13 March 2020 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Bio: Professor Anoush Ehteshami is Professor of International Relations in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. He is the Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah Chair in... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Robert Springborg, Kings College London
6 March 2020 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
BIO: Robert Springborg is a non-resident Research Fellow of the Italian Institute of International Affairs, Rome, and Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Formerly he was Professor... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Ferdinand Eibl, Kings College London
28 February 2020 - 5:30pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Ferdinand is Lecturer in Political Economy at King’s College London. He completed his DPhil in Politics and MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
James Kleinfield (investigative journalist at Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit)
21 February 2020 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
James Kleinfeld is an investigative journalist at Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit. In 2016, he spent five months undercover as a pro-Israel advocate for the ‘Lobby USA’ series. His latest work has... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs)
14 February 2020 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Bio: Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1970 and a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1974, and has... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Lex Takkenberg (Former chief of the Ethics Office at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) , Francesca Albanese (The Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM),Georgetown University)
7 February 2020 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Book outline: The Palestinian refugee question, resulting from the events surrounding the creation of the state of Israel over seventy years ago, remains one of the largest, most protracted, and most... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Toby Dodge, LSE
31 January 2020 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Bio: Toby Dodge is a Professor of International Relations in the International Relations Department at LSE. He is also the Kuwait Professor and Director of the Kuwait Programme in LSE’s Middle East... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Jonathan Brown, Georgetown University
24 January 2020 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Bio: Jonathan Brown is the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He received his BA in History from Georgetown University in 2000... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Jonathan Rugman (Foreign Affairs Correspondent at Channel 4 News)
6 December 2019 - 5:00pm
Jonathan Rugman has been Foreign Affairs Correspondent at Channel 4 News since 2006. He covered the 'Arab Spring' uprisings from 2011 onwards and won a BAFTA for his coverage of the terrorist attacks... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Ceren Lord (St Antony’s College)
29 November 2019 - 5:00pm
Dr Ceren Lord is currently British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, with Middle East Studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA), where she was previously a Sasakawa Peace... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Maziyar Ghiabi (Wadham College)
22 November 2019 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Maziyar Ghiabi is departmental lecturer at the Oriental Institute at Oxford University and Titular Lecturer at Wadham College. He obtained his Doctorate in Politics at the University of Oxford (St... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Prof Charles Tripp (University of London), Venetia Porter (The British Museam)
15 November 2019 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Short bio note for Dr Porter and Prof Tripp: Venetia Porter is a senior curator at the British Museum responsible for the collections of Islamic and Contemporary Middle East art and lead curator for... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Alain Gresh (Editor of OrientXXI and Le Monde Diplomatique)
8 November 2019 - 5:00pm
About the speaker: Alain Gresh. Born in Cairo (Egypt), in 1948. Master’s Degree of Mathematics (Université Paris VII), 1971. Diploma of Arabic, Institut national des langues et civilisations... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Moha Ennaji (President and Co-founder of International Institute for Languages and Cultures (INLAC), Fès, Morocco)
1 November 2019 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
B orn in the Berber town of Azilal, Morocco, Dr. Moha Ennaji received his higher education in Morocco and the United Kingdom. He holds an MA and a Ph.D in linguistics from the University of Essex. He... Read more

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