Middle East Politics Seminars
The Middle East Politics Seminar meets 2-3 times a term to discuss a working paper or chapter from a book project. Seminar participants are drawn from faculty and doctoral students who live in and around Oxford.
For more information on the seminar series or to join the mailing list, please contact Neil Ketchley (neil.ketchley@sant.ox.ac.uk).
10 June – George Lawson (Australian National University) The future study of revolutions and contentious politics
11 February – Steven Brooke (UW – Madison) Tribal voting in new democracies: evidence from 6 million Tunisian voter records
18 October – Charles Kurzman (UNC – Chapel Hill) Colonial subjects and the right to have rights: Algeria, 1834
28 May – Sarah Bush (University of Pennsylvania) Economic diversification and climate change in the Middle East
14 May – Salma Daudi (University of Oxford, Somerville College) Anatomy of an organized urbicide: the systematic weaponization of health in Syria
20 February – Nermin Allam (Rutgers University) Afterlife of women’s participation in the Egyptian uprising
6 February – Amiad Haran Diman (University of Oxford, Lincoln College) Shifting front lines, shifting logics: disentangling the changing strategies of civilian targeting in armed conflict
21 November – Andrew O’Donohue (Harvard University) Networks versus institutions: why legal institutions are political weapons, not democratic constraints, in Turkey
24 October – Mona Tajali (Agnes Scott College) Women and electoral politics in Iran and Turkey: undemocratic structures and feminist resistance
6 June – Ashrakat Elshehawy (University of Oxford, Somerville College) Foreign interventions and women’s socio-economic outcome
16 May – Bruno Schmidt-Feuerheerd (University of Cambridge) Posts, patriots, and propaganda: Nationalist mobilization and autocratic renewal in Saudi social media
2 May – Max Gallien (Institute for Development Studies) Between God, the people, and the state: citizen conceptions of zakat
28 February – Ala’ Alrababa’h (ETH Zurich) The dynamics of refugee return: Syrian refugees and their migration intentions
14 February – Youssef El-Chazli (Paris 8) The Arab offspring. The private wakes of the Egyptian revolution
29 November – Samer Anabtawi (University College London) The mobilisation of heritage in queer liberation movements in the MENA
8 November – Maryam Alemzadeh (University of Oxford, St Antony’s College) Contingencies of structure: how human interactions mould revolutionary states
18 October – Anne Wolf (University of Oxford, All Souls College) Tunisia, 14 January 2011: how the belief in Ben Ali’s escape secured regime collapse
22 February – Thoraya El-Rayyes (London School of Economics) Rallying under authoritarianism: evidence from Jordan
