Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Recovering Gender Equality in Islam: Conversations with Reformist Thinkers (watch a recording of the lecture here)
Laleh Khalili
The Corporeal Life of Commerce at Sea (listen to a recording of the lecture here)
Khaled Fahmy
Shari'a, dissection and justice in modern Egypt
Olivier Roy
Speaking of jihad, what do we mean by ‘religious radicalisation’?
Hisham Matar
After the Revolutions: Arab Memory and Bewilderment
Eugene Rogan
Beirut on the Stage: The Ottoman Great War in Four Acts
Jack Straw
The Future of British Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Sami Zubaida
The Quest for Cultural Authenticity and the Politics of Identity (listen to a recording of the lecture here)
Haleh Afshar
Islam and the Politics of Resistance: The Case of Women in Iran.
Baghat Kourani
Middle East Exceptionalism: Ended or Dented? Joint lecture with CASAW.
Patrick Seale
America’s War Against Islam
Roger Owen
British and French Military Intelligence in Syria and Palestine, 1914-18
Yasir Suleiman
Arabic and I
Clive Holes
From Suez to Iraq via Jimmy and Diga: Arabic Popular Poetry as a Form of Free Speech
Ruud Peters
Shari’a Criminal Law and Human Rights: Can They Be Reconciled? Special summer lecture.
Carole Hillenbrand
Images of Saladin, Past and Present
Charles Tripp
Show Trials in Iraq: Theatres of Power
Philip Robins
Top Hat and Crescent: Dualism Reconciled in Turkey’s Foreign Relations
Roger Owen
Biography and Empire: Lord Cromer (1841-1917) Then and Now
Tony Allan
Water, Food and Trade in the Middle East: Virtual Water Eliminates Water Wars?
Fred Halliday
11 September 2001 and the Study of International Relations
James Craig
A Life with the Arabs