Events archive
MEC Seminar
Ian Cameron (St Antony’s College), Katharine Brooks (Green Templeton College):
2 July 2014 - 1:45pm
Middle East Centre Library reading room at 68 Woodstock Road.
These weekly meetings bring together graduate students of the Middle East to expose their research and obtain useful feedback. Attendance is open to anyone interested in coming.
MEC Seminar
Professor Khaled Fahmy (The American University in Cairo)
19 June 2014 - 6:00pm
The Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford
The 37th Annual George Antonius Lecture
MEC Seminar
Atlas Torbati (Bristol)
11 June 2014 - 1:45pm
Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Topic The definitions of the activities and behaviours that constitute sexual assault differ in various cultures and legal jurisdictions. Therefore many victims of sexual assault might be unsure of... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr Laurent Mignon
10 June 2014 - 6:00pm
Middle East Centre Library, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
MEC Seminar
Professor Jennifer Jenkins (University of Toronto)
30 May 2014 - 6:00pm
The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
MEC Seminar
22 May 2014 - 6:00pm
Middle East Centre Library, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
About the author: Dr. Bente Scheller is the director of the Middle East Office of Heinrich Boell Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon. She holds a PhD from Free University Berlin and specializes in foreign... Read more
MEC Seminar
Ali Allawi (National University of Singapore)
20 May 2014 - 6:00pm
Middle East Centre Library, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
MEC Seminar
Laryssa Chomiak (Centre d’études maghrébines à Tunis), Adeel Malik (University of Oxford), Ferdinand Eibl (University of Oxford, Abdelwahed Mokni (University of Sfax), Michael Ayari (International Crisis Group), Mouldi Guessoumi (University of Tunis), Mohamed-Salah Omri (University of Oxford), Rory McCarthy (University of Oxford), George Joffé (University of Cambridge), Gilbert Achcar (SOAS), Michael Willis (University of Oxford), Ronald Judy (University of Pittsburgh), Ghazi Gherairi (University of Tunis), Nabil Cherni (University of Manouba), Doris Gray (Al Akhawayn University), Amira Yahyaoui (Al Bawsala), Ferdinand Eibl (University of Oxford), Dörthe Engelcke (University of Oxford), Monica Marks (University of Oxford), Samar Samir Mezghanni (University of Cambridge), Lamia Ben Youssef (University of Alabama), Nathanael Mannone (SOAS)
16 May 2014 - 11:00am to 17 May 2014 - 6:00pm
St Antony's College, Oxford
Origins, Course and Aftermath
MEC Seminar
Ozsel Beleli , Maziyar Ghiabi
12 May 2014 - 1:45pm
Middle East Centre Library reading room at 68 Woodstock Road
These weekly meetings bring together graduate students of the Middle East to discuss their research and obtain useful feedback. Attendance is open to anyone interested in taking part.
MEC Seminar
Hülya Adak (Sabancı University, Istanbul), Fabio Alberto Ambrosio (DOSTI, Istanbul, CETOBAC-EHESS, Paris, and IFEA, Istanbul), Cem Kara (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich), Aysuda Kölemen (Kemerburgaz University, Istanbul), Till Luge (Orient-Institut Istanbul, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien, Bamberg University), Laurent Mignon (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Timour Muhidine (INALCO, Paris), Dilek Sarmış (CETOBAC- EHESS, Paris), Alexandre Toumarkine (Orient-Institut, Istanbul)
3 May 2014 - 11:00am
Ertegun House, 37A St. Giles’, Oxford
Attendance including lunch is free, but space is limited, so registration for this event is essential and can be done by emailing: dervishandyogi@yahoo.com by Wednesday 30 April.
MEC Seminar
Nur Laiq
6 March 2014 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
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