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Bridging Identities: The Cultural Odyssey of Kurdistani Jews (Webinar)

Monday 2 December | 16:00 - 17:00 GMT | Bahar Baser, Durham University; Duygu Atlas; Mesut Alp; Moayed Assaf

Healthcare Under Conflict in Sudan

Monday 25 November | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Ibrahim Bani, Yale University; Eva Khair, Sudan Transnational Consortium; Majdi Osman, Nubia Health; Nahid Toubia, Institute for Reproductive Health and Rights of Sudan

The Academic Question of Palestine (Special Issue Launch)

Thursday 21 November | 17:30 - 18:45 GMT | Walaa Alqaisiya, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Middle East Centre; Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Texas Tech University; Dasha M, Independent Researcher; Nicola Perugini, University of Edinburgh; Lara Sheehi, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies; Anna Younes, Independent Researcher

Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Iraq, 2003–2023 (Book Launch)

Wednesday 13 November | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Sana Murrani, University of Plymouth; Balsam Mustafa, Cardiff University; Michael Mason, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Middle East Centre

Making Sense of the Arab State (Book Launch)

Thursday 7 November | 18:00 - 19:30 GMT | Lisa Anderson, Columbia University; Steven Heydemann, Smith College; Salwa Ismail, SOAS; Marc Lynch, The George Washington University

The 2024 Ian Black Memorial Lecture: A War Like No Other: Challenge and Change in Reporting Gaza

Monday 4 November | 18:30 - 19:30 GMT | Jim Muir, Journalist

How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare (Book Launch)

Tuesday 22 October | 18:30 - 20:00 BST | Narges Bajoghli & Vali Nasr, Johns Hopkins University, Sanam Vakil, Chatham House

An Archival History of Jordan’s Nature Reserves: Conservation, Racial Science and National Identity

Tuesday 15 October | 18:00 - 19:00 BST | Olivia Mason, Newcastle University; Frederick Wojnarowski, Department of Anthropology, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

Israel, Gaza and the Wider Regional Conflict: Assessing the Probability of a Broader War

Wednesday 9 October | 18:00 - 19:30 BST | Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick; Mohammad Ali Shabani, Amwaj Media & Yezid Sayigh, Carnegie Middle East Center

Student Careers Panel & Reception

Thursday 3 October | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Richard Barltrop, UN Consultant; Nada Bashir, Journalist, CNN; Alexandra Gomes, Research Officer, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Cities; Mina Toksoz, International Economist

Strategy and Domestic Politics in Israeli Foreign Policy: From the End of the Cold War to the 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War

Thursday 20 June | 18:00 - 19:15 BST | Amnon Aran, City, University of London

The Drama of Displacement: The Journey of a Syrian Refugee through Theatre

Thursday 13 June | 18:00 - 19:30 BST | Nesrin Alrefaai, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Middle East Centre; Matthew Spangler, San José State University in California

Revolution of Things: Islamism and post-Islamism of objects in Iran

Monday 10 June | 15:00 - 16:30 BST | Kusha Sefat, University of Tehran; James Caron, SOAS

Women Fighters in the Kurdish National Movement: Transforming Gender Politics and the PKK

Thursday 6 June | 17:00 - 18:00 BST | Mustafa Kemal Topal, Roskilde University in Denmark 

Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East

Tuesday 4 June | 18:00 - 19:00 BST | Christopher Phillips, Queen Mary, University of London; Faisal Al Yafai, New Lines Magazine

The Palestinian University and Scholasticide

Tuesday 28 May | 16:00 - 17:00 BST | Ahmed Abu Shaban, Al-Azhar University — Gaza; Esmat Elhalaby, University of Toronto

Kurdish Studies Conference, 22-23 May 2024

This interdisciplinary event builds on the inaugural conference at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ in 2023 and is organised by the Kurdish Studies Series at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Middle East Centre and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield.

Industrial Policy in Turkey: Rise, Retreat and Return (Book Launch)

Monday 20 May | 16:00 - 17:00 BST | William Hale, SOAS; Mustafa Kutlay, City, University of London; Mina Toksoz, Author and International Economist

13 Years After the Arab Spring: What are the Chances for Legitimate Constitutions in the Arab World?

Monday 25 March | 17:15 - 18:30 GMT | Nathan J. Brown, Georgetown University; Tamara Khoury, IE University; Azza Kamel Maghur, Lawyer and Human Rights Activist

Navigating the Crisis: Yemen 10 Years On

Wednesday 13 March | 17:00 - 18:00 GMT | Ahmed Al Khameri, Chemonics; Marwa Baabbad, Yemen Policy Centre; Andreas Krieg, KCL

Conquests and Rents: A Political Economy of Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies (Webinar)

Tuesday 12 March | 16:00 - 17:00 GMT | Faisal Z. Ahmed, Wellesley College 

The Civil War in Syria: Prospects for Peace and the Role of External Actors

Thursday 7 March | 17:30 - 19:00 GMT | Soli Özel, Istanbul Kadir Has University; Selin Nasi & Rim Turkmani, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

Iranian Kurdistan Since 1979 Workshop, Wednesday 6 March 2024

This workshop brought together scholars from across disciplines to explore contemporary Iranian or ‘Rojhelati’ Kurdistan.

Political Elites, Civil Society and the Future of Sudan

Tuesday 5 March | 18:00 - 19:30 GMT | Mai Hassan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Kholood Khair, Confluence Advisory

Social Media Influencing in the City of Likes: Dubai and the Postdigital Condition

Tuesday 27 February | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Zoe Hurley, Zayed University; Tariq Elyas, King Abdulaziz University; Sarah Hopkyns, University of St Andrews

Women in Academia & Research: Perspectives from Iran, Saudi Arabia & Kuwait (Webinar)

Tuesday 20 February | 16:00 - 17:00 GMT | Bibi Alajmi, Kuwait University; Hanaa Almoaibed, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Middle East Centre; Anahita Motazed Rad, Department of International Relations, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

The Middle Eastern Studies Department at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), in partnership with the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Middle East Center, is organizing the second edition of its two-day conference in Doha, Qatar. 

Translating the Language of the Syrian Revolution

Tuesday 13 February | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Eylaf Bader Eddin, Forum Transregionale Studien

The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt

Wednesday 7 February | 18:30 - 20:00 GMT | Harry Pettit, Radboud University Nijmegen; Salwa Ismail, SOAS; Jo Littler, Goldsmiths, University of London; Tatiana Thieme, UCL

Artificial Intelligence and Development in MENA: Inclusion or Inequality?

Thursday 1 February | 17:00 - 18:00 GMT | Nagla Rizk, American University in Cairo