Tuesday 15 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Buber and Gandhi on land and resistance: Reading the Buber-Gandhi correspondence after October 7
  Dr Yemima Hadad (University of Leipzig)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Ezgi Başaran (University of Oxford)
  Book Talks

Wednesday 16 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Marketplace
  Timothy Cooper (King's College, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 18 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Colonial Subjects and the Right to Have Rights: Algeria, 1834
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Charles Kurzman (University of North Carolina)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 21 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University)

Tuesday 22 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - The Image of Herod in Modern Israel
  Professor Martin Goodman
  Israel Studies Seminar

Wednesday 23 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - On Genocide: Then and Now
  Professor Phillipe Sands (University College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - The Shadow of the Apocalypse? In Search of a New History of the Second World War
  Jonathan Fennell (KCL)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 25 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Naghmeh Sohrabi (Brandeis University)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 28 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Conspiracy: Assassination in Beirut
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dan Clifton (Independent Writer/Director), Michael Taylor (Independent Investigations/Police Consultant)
  Film Screenings

Tuesday 29 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - 'You cannot really live (or die) here’: ongoing struggles over cemeteries and housing in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1957-2020
  Dr Michal Huss (University of Manchester)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Rusha Latif (Independent Researcher)
  Book Talks

Wednesday 30 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Iran’s Crisis of Governance
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Wednesday 6 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - History and the Modern Middle East: Do Policy Makers Need a Sense of the Past?
  Sir John Jenkins (Former UK Ambassador to Saudi Arabia)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Every day militarism and the history of British military bases
  Yasmin Khan (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Regional Dimensions of the Gaza Crisis, and the Arab role in the UN Security Council
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Mouin Rabbani, Hasmik Egian
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - To Ensure the Jewish Character of the Town Through the Establishment of a Central Synagogue: Synagogues in Israeli Urban Internal Frontiers as Symbols of Sovereignty
  Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Yoram Meital-Jacobson (Ben-Gurion University)
  Book Talks

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - English Judges in Muslim Countries: Synergies and Sensitivities in Promoting the Rule of Law
  Sir Peter Gross (Former Lord Justice of Appeal)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Elham Fakhro (Exeter University)
  Book Talks

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Abraham and Moses as Entrepreneurs: Educating for the Future with Narratives of the Past
  Dr Sari Alfi-Nissan (University of Oxford)
  Israel Studies Seminar

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Threats to the Rule of Law
  The Rt. Hon. Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury (Former President, UK Supreme Court)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - The Women Behind the Few: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force in British Air Intelligence During the Second World War
  Sarah-Louise Miller (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Writing Middle Eastern lives: biography in modern Arab history
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (American University of Beirut), Professor Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford), Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Trade Networks Bridging Yemen, Israel, and Ethiopia: The Ḥibshūsh Family and Jewish-Muslim Commercial Relations in the 20th Century
  Dr Menashe Anzi (Ben Gurion University)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Roy Bar Sadeh (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Nick Maynard (University of Oxford), Dr Debbie Harrington (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Rebecca Ingliss (University of Oxford)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - 'Last child of the Risorgimento'? Zionism and the legacies of 1848”
  Professor Abigail Green
  Israel Studies Seminar

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Engaging with the Contemporary World: A Multi-Religious Perspective
  Professor Tomáš Halik (Charles University, Prague)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Violent Seas: Experience, Representation, and Technology of Naval Warfare, 1665–1783
  Sarah von Hagen (Göttingen)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv University), Dr Brian Klug (Oxford)