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North American Studies Seminar Series

Mexico’s Future: The Reform Agenda, Political Cooperation and National Competitiveness

Duncan Wood (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)

27 November 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

The Buttery, Hilde Besse Building, St Antony's College

Duncan Wood is the Director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. For 17 years, Dr Wood was a professor and the director of the... Read more

View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building

MEC Seminar

The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising

Professor Gilbert Achcar (SOAS)

27 November 2013 - 5:00pm

Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford

Gilbert Achcar will assess and discuss the latest developments in the Arab region with a special focus on Syria, on the occasion of the publication of his recent book with Saqi (2013). This event was... Read more

Southeast Asia Seminar

God's Mercy is Not Limiterd to Arabic Speakers: Issues of authority and legitimacy in the translation of Islam into local languages

Saiful Umam (Imam Bukhari Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)

27 November 2013 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Deakin Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College

There is no doubt that Arabic has a very central position in Islam. Not only was Arabic the language of the Qur’an, the Prophet and his companions, but it was also the standard language for the... Read more