Events archive
MEC Seminar
Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (University of Oxford)
5 March 2014 - 12:45pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
Topic Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarized and patriarchal spaces characterised by violence against women, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their inhabitants have consistently... Read more
MEC Seminar
Tom Segev (Israeli historian, author and journalist)
25 February 2014 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
MEC Seminar
Ahmed Dailami (DPhil candidate in Oriental Studies, St Antony’s College), Hussein Omar (DPhil candidate in History, Magdalen College)
24 February 2014 - 12:45pm
Middle East Centre Library reading room, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Ahmed Dailami, DPhil candidate in Oriental Studies, St Antony’s College The Last Kings Standing: Defeating Nationalism in the Arabian Peninsula Unlike most of the post-colonial world, the Arab States... Read more
MEC Seminar
17 February 2014 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
The Middle East Centre and St Antony's College warmly invite you to the launching of Dr Stephanie Cronin's Armies and State Builidng in the Modern Middle East: Politics, Nationlism and Military... Read more
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Allison Hartnett (Corpus Christi College), Makio Yamada (St Antony’s College)
3 February 2014 - 5:45pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
We are calling on interested research students to take part in the relaunch of the Oxford Middle East Centre DPhil colloquium for 2013-14. This lunchtime lecture series is open to new and returning... Read more
MEC Seminar
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
MEC Seminar
Yoni Furas (St Antony’s College), Edward McAllister (St Antony’s College)
25 November 2013 - 12:45pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre’s main reading room
The lunchtime series will be held during term time on Mondays from 12.45 pm on uneven weeks at the Middle East Centre’s main reading room. Attendance is open to all students, researchers and... Read more
MEC Seminar
Adel Iskandar, Georgetown University, Jadaliyya
17 October 2013 - 1:45pm
Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford
MEC Seminar
Şeyma Afacan (Dphil candidate in Oriental Studies, St Antony’s College), Will Clegg (Dphil candidate in History, Balliol College), Leonardo Davoudi (Dphil candidate in History, St. Antony's College), Servet Erdem (Dphil candidate in Oriental Studies, St Antony's College), Graham Jevon (Dphil candidate in History, St. Antony's College), Maziyar Ghiabi (Mphil candidate in Modern Middle Eastern Studies, St. Antony's College), Julia Ley (Mphil candidate in Modern Middle Eastern Studies, St. Antony's College)
12 June 2013 - 3:00pm
Ertegun House, 37A St. Giles’, Oxford University of Oxford
Ertegun House, the Middle East Centre at St. Antony’s College and Oxford Middle East Studies Graduate Group are pleased to announce the second ‘Middle Eastern Studies Research Colloquium’. We invite... Read more
MEC Seminar
Professor Joseph Sassoon (Georgetown University)
6 June 2013 - 6:00pm
62 Woodstock Road, Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
There will be a reception after the lecture
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Professor Tim Niblock Exeter University
4 June 2013 - 6:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
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Dr Alexander Kazamias (University of Coventry)
28 May 2013 - 6:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
A fascinating new reading of the history of the Greek, Italian, Jewish and other European communities in interwar and post-independence Egypt.
MEC Seminar
Dr Ashraf El-Sherif, American University in Cairo, Ibrahim Hodeiby (Former Muslim Brother, writer and activist), Dr Hazem Kandil, Cambridge University, Abdel Moneim Mahmoud (Former Muslim Brother, writer and activist)
15 May 2013 - 6:00pm
62 Woodstock Road, Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
A two panel conference offering a rare opportunity to debate with insiders and experts the fortunes of Egypt's 2011 revolution since the coming to power of the Muslim Brotherhood, and implications... Read more
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Mr Hammadi Jebali (Prime Minister of Tunisia 2011 - 13)
14 May 2013 - 6:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
Prime Minister of Tunisia 2011-13 Leading Figure in An-Nahda Party Former Political Prisoner Photographs by Naysan Rafati Mr Hammadi Jebali and Dr Michael Willis
MEC Seminar
Prof. Benjamin Fortna (SOAS, University of London)
11 May 2013 - 10:00am
Ertegun House, 37A St. Giles’, Oxford University of Oxford
One-Day Graduate Workshop in Ottoman Studies at the University of Oxford Organized by the Ottoman Studies Group at Oxford, in cooperation with Ertegun House and the Middle East Centre at St. Antony’s... Read more