Middle East Centre
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The Middle East Centre, founded in 1957 at St Antony’s College is the centre for the interdisciplinary study of the modern Middle East in the University of Oxford. Centre Fellows teach and conduct research in the humanities and social sciences with direct reference to the Arab world, Iran, Israel and Turkey, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. However, during our regular Friday seminar series, attracting a wide audience, our distinguished speakers bring topics to light that touch on contemporary issues.
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Contingency of Structures: Triggers and the Social Geography of Revolutionary Episodes in Iran 2017–2022
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May 12, 2026 |
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Decolonizing Security Studies - a North African perspective
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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An Autocratic Middle Class? State Dependency and Protest in the Middle East and North Africa
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Saudi Arabia and the Global Trajectory of Islamic Law
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Seeds in the Rubble: Cultural Vitality in the Arab World
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Egypt’s Role, Identity, and Foreign Policy in a River of De-Nile
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Morocco’s Party of Justice and Development in Government: The Experience and the Future
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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NGOization of the Palestinian civil society post-Oslo: our community-based ways out
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Gaza Genocide as a Symptom: Fragile World Order and Regional Impacts
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Big Tech and the Automation of Genocide in Gaza
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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The Devaki Jain Lecture - Empowered voices: Jordanian women shaping their future
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May 30, 2025 |
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Liberation Theology in Palestine
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May 27, 2025 |
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Towards an Inclusive Narrative, History, and Methodology
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May 27, 2025 |
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After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
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May 23, 2025 |
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The Archaeology and History of Palestine - Book introduction
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May 22, 2025 |
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History of the British Mandate in Palestine
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May 22, 2025 |
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New Critical Assessment of the Archaeology and History of Palestine During the Early and Middle Islamic Periods
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May 22, 2025 |
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Palestine Research Centre symposium at the MEC – Opening remarks
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May 22, 2025 |
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The Prehistory of Palestine
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May 22, 2025 |
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Philip Michael Wolfson on Dame Zaha Hadid and the 10 Year Anniversary of the Investcorp Building
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May 22, 2025 |
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The chaos (fawḍà) Bashshar al-Asad warned against – Damascus University 10th November 2005 – and present-day Syria
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Israeli Public Opinion, War and Prospects for Peace
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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The Axis of Resistance
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Sudan's current war: a longer view on peacemaking and prospects
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Lebanon and Syria Amidst Regional Turmoil
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Defining antisemitism: what is the point
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Regional dimensions of the Gaza crisis, and the Arab role in the UN Security Council
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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From the Cradle to the Street: Family and the 1979 Revolution in Iran
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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What Gazans Think Before and After October 7th
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Reflections on Tunisian Women's Continued Fight for Respect, Dignity and Rights: Focus on Women in the Labour Movement
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May 14, 2024 |
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Webs of oppression’ in everyday organizing in Palestine: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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The Gender Effect in Intra-Party Meritocracy (with Rabia Kutlu)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Is a Binational State Possible After 7 October?
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Panel Discussion: Recognizing Palestinian Statehood: European views
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Genocide and Accountability in Gaza: The Limits and Potential of International Law
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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The Settler Movement, Political Impasses, and Beyond
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Considering the Political Options in Gaza After Three Months of War
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Israeli Public Opinion and Political Options after 7 October
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Modern Arab Kingship - Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Stories to Connect: The Reza Hosseini Memorial Lecture Series on the past and present of the Middle East
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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What have the Arab Uprisings done to "Contemporary Arab Thought"?
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Memorial in honour of Derek Hopwood OBE and Celia Kerslake
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Women’s Movements and Citizenship in the Middle East
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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The Conflict in Syria, A Personal Story
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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'The Transformation of Iraq since the 2003 Invasion: From "The Dodgy Dossier", to Human Security, Gender, and the Nation's Future in the Face of Climate Change'
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Iraq 2018-2019: The Rule of Law: a perspective
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Cheaters Dilemma: Iraq, WMD and the path to the 2003 war
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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The Popular Mobilisation Units and their Pursuit of Power and Legitimacy within the Iraqi State
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Clerics in the time of Tishreen
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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The International Thought of Turkish Islamists: History, Civilization and Nation
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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The struggle for Salafism in Egypt’s post-revolutionary period
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Resurrecting the Caliphate: The Creed of Abraham and ISIS’s Hermeneutics of Power
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Centres, Peripheries and New Histories of the Left in Iran
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Women's Rights Research Seminar: Threatened motherhood in the Israeli welfare state: The discourse and the practice behind the disqualification of disadvantaged women's motherhood
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May 19, 2022 |
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Yemen’s Enduring Crisis
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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All Jihad Is Local: the Micro-Politics of Militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and Beyond
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Islam and the Arab Revolutions – the Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East?
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Afghanistan and the Middle East
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy?
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its afterlives
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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The Politics of Water Scarcity in the Case of Jordan
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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War on Bodies Moral Immunity and the Psychopolitics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Women's Rights on The Altar of a Strategic Stake: The New Population Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
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May 18, 2021 |
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Hamid Dabashi in conversation about his new book:The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
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May 07, 2021 |
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The Tinderbox documentary film discussion
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Debating the Law, Creating Gender - MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Ashmolean Museum - Middle East Centre: Owning the Past: A troubled century of Anglo-Iraqi relations
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture - Iran and the Arab Uprisings: Opportunity Grasped or Squandered?
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Counter-Revolutions Vs. Counter-Marginalization Movements: (Re)Visiting the Online Tug-of-War a Decade After the Arab Spring
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Tunisia: Unfinished Revolutions (Held jointly with the British-Tunisian Society)
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Libya: Past, Present and Future
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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The Place of Religion After the Uprisings
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism?
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Apocalymbo: Trickster Politics in the Age of the Pandemic (and Other Crises)
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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‘God Does not Discriminate’: Inclusive Mosques Politics in France and the United Kingdom
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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The Trajectory of the Tunisian Revolution: between Continuities and Disjunctures
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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The New Populist nationalism in Saudi Arabia
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Challenging the Limited View - The Case of the Women in Mosques Movement
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Authoritarian or Revolutionary? Reflections on the Nature of the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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The Dictatorship Syndrome
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Refugee Studies Centre: Book launch - Palestinian Refugees in International Law
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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The Saudi Arabia of Muhammad bin Salman: How Much Change?
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Book Launch - Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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The struggle for Iraq's political field after the assassination of Qasim Sulimani, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis; the protest movement, Iraq's militias and the ruling elite
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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Justice and Islamic Law: Mazalim Courts and Legal Reform
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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Iran, Iraq and the US after the Qasim Sulemani assassination
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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Iraq and Iran: old foes, ambivalent allies
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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Hirak: A roundtable on the Algerian protests
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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George Antonius Memorial Lecture: Reflections on Three Decades in Pursuit of Palestinian Statehood
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Lecture and Book Launch- The politics of family law reform in Jordan and Morocco: Two seemingly similar monarchies, two different approaches
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Jun 14, 2019 |
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The Thirty Year Genocide - Turkey's destruction of its Christian minorities, 1894-1924
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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Situating the Study of Islam in Global Intellectual History: Toshihiko Izutsu's Middle-Earth
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May 29, 2019 |
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Reflections on Recent Events in the Republic of Sudan
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May 10, 2019 |
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Desert in the Promised Land: The Politics and Semiotics of Space in Israeli Culture
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May 10, 2019 |
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Revolution in Iran 1978-1979: Assessments and Reassessments upon the Fortieth Anniversary
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May 01, 2019 |
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Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda: Between Politics and Preaching
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May 01, 2019 |
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Women's Rights Research Seminar - From Kurdistan to Europe: Kurdish Literary, Artistic and Cultural Activism by Kurdish Women Intellectuals
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May 01, 2019 |
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Twenty-first century: populism, neoliberalism, and their discontents
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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In Search of Institutional Order: Can the Shi'a Marja'iyya Depart from Traditional Limits and Unlock the Future Potential?
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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Iran and sanctions
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Women and Social Change in North Africa: What Counts as Revolutionary? A Discussion
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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The Iraq War Inquiry - a study in contemporary political, diplomatic, military and reconstruction history
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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European Policy on the Middle East: Making a Difference?
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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The Middle East: Should We Give Up?
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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And then God created the Middle East and said let there be breaking news
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Dec 07, 2018 |
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Iraq after the elections: A new beginning?
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Dec 07, 2018 |
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Crafting a human rights-based approach to HIV/AIDS for women in the Middle East
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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Reconsidering Marshall Hodgson
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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Book Launch: Christian Martyrs under Islam
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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Between Love and Lineage: Elopement, Rights and Violence in an Afghan Valley
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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Book launch: Khalil Maleki -The Human Face of Iranian Socialism
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State (South Sudan)
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Lords of the Desert: Britain’s struggle with America to dominate the Middle East
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Book Event: On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Workshop: Memory, Memoirs, and History part 2
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Workshop: Memory, Memoirs, and History Part 1
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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The Question of Judeo-Arabic: Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture - The Tunisian Revolution: Achievements and disillusions
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Women's Rights Research Seminar: Tale of two Omani women
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Arab Media in the New Age
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Jun 01, 2018 |
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Israel and Palestine: Why Britain Should Recognize the Second State
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Religious Freedom in Turkey
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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The challenges of healthcare in Gaza
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Gaza: Martyrdom and Betrayal
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Women's Rights Research Seminar: Women and the Struggle for Democracy in Iran
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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De Gaulle in Beirut- The Chehab Experiment, 1958-1964
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Women's Rights Research Seminar- A Global History of the Struggle for Women’s Rights: The Women’s Movement in Istanbul in the Context of International Feminism in the Early 20th Century
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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The Gulf Crisis
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Jan 29, 2018 |
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War crimes, crimes against humanity and territorial fragmentation: are peace and reconstruction possible in Syria?
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Dec 22, 2017 |
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A View of Globalisation from its Margin: Searching for Karate’s Budo Roots in Contemporary Egypt
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Dec 11, 2017 |
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Are Algerian politics exhausted?
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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What challenges does Israel face in the world today?
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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Governing Divided Egypt
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Nov 17, 2017 |
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WRRS: Dancing with Words: Subverting the Master Narrative in Saudi Women’s Literature
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Nov 13, 2017 |
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Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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George Antonius Memorial Lecture: The Iraq Invasion and Aftermath: Lessons for Arab World Reform
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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Book Launch: Islam: The Essentials
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Jun 12, 2017 |
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The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation
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May 30, 2017 |
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Panel Discussion: Prospects of Iraqi Kurdistan's Independence Amid Regional Turbulences
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May 16, 2017 |
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Writing an Arab Officer into the 1948 War for Palestine
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May 09, 2017 |
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Tunisia
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Mar 27, 2017 |
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Free Expression in the Gulf
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Mar 27, 2017 |
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Jews, Muslims, and Law in Nineteenth-Century Morocco
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Mar 10, 2017 |
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Islam in Europe
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Feb 28, 2017 |
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The Conflict in Libya
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Feb 01, 2017 |
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The Syrian Conflict
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Feb 01, 2017 |
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Book launch: Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt
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Jan 09, 2017 |
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Contemporary Challenges for Political Islam
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Mar 07, 2016 |
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How Syria was destroyed: The dynamics of a civil war
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Mar 04, 2016 |
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Women and the 19th Century Emergence of the Arabic Novel
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Mar 04, 2016 |
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Britain and Palestine: Balfour to Blair
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Feb 22, 2016 |
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The Political Economy of Violence in the Middle East: What Questions Should the Social Scientist Ask?
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Feb 19, 2016 |
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Activism and Accountability in Contemporary Lebanon: A Quiet Revolt?
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Feb 15, 2016 |
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The Limits of Refusal: Israel, Lebanon, and the Shadow of 1982
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Feb 10, 2016 |
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Accounts of madrassahs post-9/11: Bearings of Recent History
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Feb 01, 2016 |
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Beyond Uprising: Inside Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
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Feb 01, 2016 |
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The Automobile Club of Egypt
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Feb 01, 2016 |
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The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula in the Global Cold War
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Jan 26, 2016 |
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The Islamic State, the Kurdistan Region, and the Future of Iraq
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Dec 11, 2015 |
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Is Religion Really Violent?
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Dec 03, 2015 |
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The creation of governments-in-waiting: the Arab Uprisings and legitimacy in the international system
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Nov 24, 2015 |
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Speaking Truth to Power: The BBC and the Middle East
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Nov 24, 2015 |
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Turkey’s Kurdish Predicament
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Nov 20, 2015 |
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ISIS: Between Fragmentation and Unity
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Nov 20, 2015 |
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From periphery to IRCAM: how Morocco's Berbers have come in from the cold
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Aug 11, 2015 |
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“Bled ma-fihash Yahud ma-fihash Ta'arikh" Researching and Narrating Morocco's Jewish Community
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Aug 11, 2015 |
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The Water Crisis in Yemen: Managing Extreme Water Scarcity in the Middle East. Book Launch
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Aug 11, 2015 |
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Which way forward?
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Mar 27, 2015 |
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Israel - Palestine: Can Europe Save the Two-State Idea
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Mar 27, 2015 |
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How European Governments subcontract policy on Israel/Palestine to parliamentarians,civil society and businesses
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Mar 27, 2015 |
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Title: Why Egypt’s 2011 Uprising Has Failed to deliver on its Promise?
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Mar 27, 2015 |