Middle East Centre
Oxford University
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.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Aug 28, 2018 • 1h 15min
Book Event: On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements
Jacqueline Rose (Birkbeck), Kfir Cohen (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute), Moshe Behar (The University of Manchester), Hakem Al-Rustom (Michigan), Ella Shohat (New York University) discuss at the book event. Chaired by Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College).
Aug 28, 2018 • 48min
Workshop: Memory, Memoirs, and History part 2
Ella Shohat (New York University) and Avi Shlaim (St Antony's College) give the second of two workshops for the middle east centre.
Aug 28, 2018 • 33min
Workshop: Memory, Memoirs, and History Part 1
Ella Shohat (New York University) and Avi Shlaim (St Antony's College) give the first of two workshops for the middle east centre.
Aug 28, 2018 • 1h
The Question of Judeo-Arabic: Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary
Ella Shohat (New York University) gives a lecture for the middle east centre, chaired by Yaacov Yadgar (Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies, St Anne's). Comments by Yuval Evri (SOAS).
Aug 28, 2018 • 36min
Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture - The Tunisian Revolution: Achievements and disillusions
Moncef Marzouki (Former President of the Republic of Tunisia, 2011-2014) gives the annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture.
Aug 28, 2018 • 23min
Women's Rights Research Seminar: Tale of two Omani women
Deena Al Asfoor (St Catherine's College) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre. Chaired by Nazila Ghanea (Kellogg College).
Jun 1, 2018 • 30min
Arab Media in the New Age
George Hawatmeh (Jordan Radio and Television Corporation) gives a public lecture on Arab media in the new age. Chaired buy Philip Robins (St Antony's College). George Hawatmeh is currently the Chairman of the Board of Jordan Radio and Television Corporation. Before his appointment to head the state-owned JRTVC in June 2016, he was an independent communications and media consultant. In this capacity, and as president of AWAN, Arab Media Consultants, a firm he founded in 2007, Hawatmeh publishes three Arabic online news websites and a fourth in English. Since 1998, he also has been working on developing a Web-based encyclopedia on the Arab World.
With a career in journalism that started in 1981, Hawatmeh reported for British newspapers and was editor-in-chief for three Jordanian daily newspapers (Al Ghad, Al Ra'i and the English-language Jordan Times). He also published a monthly magazine specialized in covering media issues in the Arab World. In 2000-2001, he served as director of the Jordan Information Bureau in Washington DC.
Apr 3, 2018 • 24min
Israel and Palestine: Why Britain Should Recognize the Second State
Sir Vincent Fean KCVO, gives a talk for the Middle East Studies seminar series.
Apr 3, 2018 • 16min
Religious Freedom in Turkey
Alexandre Toumarkine (INALCO, Paris) talks about religious freedom in Turkey.
Apr 3, 2018 • 1h 6min
The challenges of healthcare in Gaza
Richard Guy (Consultant Surgeon), Omar Abdel-Mannan (Paediatrician), and Debbie Harrington (Consultant Obstetrician) talk about the challenges of healthcare in Gaza.
