Events archive
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Toby Matthiesen (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice)
19 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Based on a synthesis of decades of scholarship in numerous languages, The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism , is the first truly global and longue durée history of Sunni-Shii... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Haytham Alhamwi (Chairman, Syrian British Consortium; Manager, Rebuild Rethink Society)
12 May 2023 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Dr Haytham Alhamwi is the Chairman of the Syrian British Consortium, a London-based advocacy body for British Syrians. He is also a co-founder and the manager of Rethink Rebuild Society, a charity... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Elvire Corboz, University of Edinburgh
5 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
In contrast to the ever-growing scholarship dedicated to sectarianism in the Middle East, relations between Sunni and Shi‘a Muslims in European contexts remain understudied. In Britain, the past... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr. Diana Galeeva (Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and a Non-Resident Fellow with the Gulf International Forum)
28 April 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
In recent decades Russia has played an increasingly active role in the Middle East as states within the region continue to diversify their relations with major external powers. Yet the role of... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Ibrahim al-Marashi, Associate Professor at California State University, San Marcos
10 March 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Biography Ibrahim Al-Marashi is Associate Professor of Middle East history at California State University San Marcos and visiting professor at the IE University School of Global and Public Affairs in... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Professor of Political Science, University of Oslo.
24 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Why did the Iraqi regime fail to demonstrate it no longer had WMD prior to the 2003 invasion? For the past twenty years, there has been surprisingly little debate about this key question. In this... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr. Inna Rudolf, Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at the War Studies Department of King’s College London and Partner at the Candid Foundation.
17 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Biography: Dr. Inna Rudolf is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) and a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Divided... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Thomas Hegghammer, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College
10 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Abstract: How did the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 affect the evolution of the transnational jihadi movement? The consensus view since the mid-2000s has been that the war fuelled militant Islamism... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Isabel Käser, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern & Visiting Fellow at the Middle East Centre, LSE, Houzan Mahmoud, Feminist Activist, Writer, and Founder of Culture Project
3 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Biographies Isabel Käser is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, and a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre. She is also the Principal... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Clerics in the time of Tishreen: The evolution of religion-civil society relations in post-2003 Iraq
Marsin Alshamary, Research Fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School
27 January 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Biography Marsin Alshamary is a research fellow at the Middle East Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs with the Harvard Kennedy School. She is also a non-resident... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Ali Allawi, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Republic of Iraq and author of The Occupation of Iraq (2007)
20 January 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Ali Allawi is an Iraqi politician and author. From 2003-2004 he served as Minister of Trade and Minister of Defence in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council. Subsequently, he... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Sohaira Siddiqui, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Georgetown University in Qatar
2 December 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Abstract: Dr. Siddiqui's talk "Contesting Muslim Legal Sovereignty in Colonial India" is part of her forthcoming book which explores the juridical thought of the first Muslims lawyers and judges to... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Elvire Corboz, University of Edinburgh
25 November 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Abstract: In contrast to the ever-growing scholarship dedicated to sectarianism in the Middle East, relations between Sunni and Shi‘a Muslims in European contexts remain understudied. In Britain, the... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Rachel M Scott, Professor of Islamic Studies, Virginia Tech
18 November 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
It has often been argued that the concept of an Islamic state is difficult to reconcile with full and equal citizenship for non-Muslims. It is also widely assumed that a type of individualist... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Joas Wagemakers (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
11 November 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Abstract: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) is seen by many scholars as an important intellectual source of radical Islamism. His reception among violent Islamist... Read more