Events archive

MEC Seminar

The Inaugural Sheikh Zayed Book Award Lecture

Abdulla Al Ghathami, Sheikh Zayed Book Award Advisory Board, Jamal Al Ghitani, 2009 Sheikh Zayed Book Award-winner in Literature
5 November 2009 - 5:00pm
Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road
MEC Seminar

Last Chance The Middle East in the Balance

David Gardner, The Financial Times
3 November 2009 - 5:00pm
Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road
Talks about the new book Last Chance The Middle East in the Balance (London: I.B. Tauris)
MEC Seminar

Is there an Iraqi refugee crisis?

Jarvis Doctorow, Junior Research Fellow in International Relations and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East, St Edmund Hall and the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Dr Shahira Samy
27 October 2009 - 5:00pm
Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road
MEC Seminar

The Israeli Democracy: Human Rights and Minority Rights in Times of Peace and War

Justice Dalia Dorner, Justice (retired) of Israel’s Supreme Court President of the Israeli Press Council
20 October 2009 - 6:00pm
Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road
MEC Seminar

The Sultan’s Armed Forces in Muscat & Oman, 1962-1964 Recollections by contemporaries of the time

David Gwynne-James, Allan Williams
13 October 2009 - 6:00pm
Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road
An informal illustrated talk
MEC Seminar

On Mannequins and the Politics of Moral Imagination in Iran

16 June 2009 - 6:00pm
The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Viewing of Rough Cut A Documentary Film Written, Produced and Directed By Firouzeh Khosrovani Camera: Abbas Kowsari; Sound: Amir Hossein Ghasemi. Editors: Bijan Mirbagheri, Keyvan Jahanshahi; Music:... Read more
MEC Seminar

Oxford University Arab Cultural Society: Iraq's Democratic Moment: British Imperialism, Hashemite Kings and the National Democrats

Mr. Foulath Hadid (Honorary Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
5 June 2009 - 6:15pm
The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
MEC Seminar

Youth political views in Lebanon amid a confessional political and educational system

Dr Maha Shuayb (Centre for Lebanese Studies Visiting Fellow)
29 May 2009 - 6:00pm
The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
MEC Seminar

When Law Prevents Justice: The Case of France and the Algerian War

Dr Stephanie Hare (Alistair Horne Fellow – St Antony’s College)
26 May 2009 - 6:15pm
The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
MEC Seminar

British-French relations in the Middle East between the wars

James Barr St Antony’s College
15 May 2009 - 6:00pm
The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
MEC Seminar

The Crisis of Islamic Civilization

Ali A. Allawi (St Antony’s College)
8 May 2009 - 6:00pm
The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
MEC Seminar

The New Israeli Government: Implications for U.S. Policy in the Middle East

Professor Shai Feldman (Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University)
27 April 2009 - 2:00pm
The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
MEC Seminar

Settler colonialism and public commemoration: Commemorating and negotiating conquest in colonial Algeria, 1840s - 1914

Jan Jansen (SOAS)
13 March 2009 - 1:00pm
The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
MEC Seminar

‘Under a Mushroom Cloud – Europe, Iran and the Bomb’

Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi (Director of the Translantic Institute in Brussels)
9 March 2009 - 12:45pm
The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
A study of Iran’s nuclear programme and what Europe can do
Nissan Lecture Theatre
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“Reflections on the American Intervention in Iraq”

Dr Ahmad Chalabi
27 February 2009 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College

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