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Middle East Centre
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Resurrecting the Caliphate: The Creed of Abraham and ISIS’s Hermeneutics of Power

A talk with a focus on the contemporary militant group referred to by the acronym ISIS (or ISIL) and its views on the “caliphate.”
Middle East Centre Booktalk

The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet

Episode 2, with Dr Faisal Devji, (St Antony’s College, Oxford), talks with Joshua Craze (University of Chicago) and writer Aaron Tugendhaft about Aaron's new book The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet, University of Chicago Press 2020.
Middle East Centre

The Syrian Conflict

Raphael Lefevre (New College, Oxford) and Kevin Mazur (Nuffield College, Oxford) discuss the ongoing Syrian conflict on 20th January 2017.
Changing Character of War
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Militant Jihadi Culture: Poetry as a Weapon

The power of poetry to move Arab listeners and readers emotionally, to infiltrate the psyche and to create an aura of authenticity around the ideologies it enshrines, make it a perfect weapon for militant jihadist causes.
Protecting the Past 2 - Towards a better future with cultural heritage

The Destroyed Heritage in Mosul - reality and challenges (Kurdish translation)

Layla Salih outlines some of the reasons, religious, political and economic, for the destruction of Mosul’s heritage and examines the issues currently hindering plans for prioritisation and reconstruction.
Protecting the Past 2 - Towards a better future with cultural heritage

The Destroyed Heritage in Mosul - reality and challenges (Arabic translation)

Layla Salih outlines some of the reasons, religious, political and economic, for the destruction of Mosul’s heritage and examines the issues currently hindering plans for prioritisation and reconstruction.
Protecting the Past 2 - Towards a better future with cultural heritage

The Destroyed Heritage in Mosul - reality and challenges (English)

Layla Salih outlines some of the reasons, religious, political and economic, for the destruction of Mosul’s heritage and examines the issues currently hindering plans for prioritisation and reconstruction.
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

The problems of reporting Islamic State

John Simpson, BBC World Affairs editor, gives a talk for the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series on Islamic State.
Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminars

Counter-Terrorism and Security in Europe after the Paris attacks

A web seminar delivered by Professor Fiona de Londras (Birmingham) for the Oxford Human Rights Hub on Friday 22nd January 2016 at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Moderated by Sandra Fredmad.
Middle East Centre

The Islamic State, the Kurdistan Region, and the Future of Iraq

Professor Gareth Stansfield (University of Exeter) gives a talk on Iraq, ISIS, and the Kurdish region as part ofte Middle East Centre Seminar series.
Middle East Centre

Turkey’s Kurdish Predicament

Lecture given at St. Antony’s Middle East Centre on Wednesday 28th October 2015, with Cengiz Candar.
Middle East Centre

ISIS: Between Fragmentation and Unity

Lecture given at St Antony’s Middle East Centre on Friday 6th November 2015, with Dr Alia Brahimi.
Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference

Overview of Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa

Part of the Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference. Theme 1: What is happening? The significance of sites at risk, and the current situation.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

ISIS in the Eyes of the World-Wide Arab Community on Social Media: Between Sentiment and Foreign Fighters

Using social media to analyse public opinion toward ISIS in the Arab community
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Why are westerners drawn to fight with IS in Syria and Iraq? And what can we do in response?

Rachel Briggs (Institute for Strategic Dialogue) and Peter Neumann (International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation) give a presentation for the COMPAS Breakfast Brefiing Series.
Rothermere American Institute

American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

The Hon. Christopher Bancroft Burnham, Former US Under Secretary of State and former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute seminar series
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Lab, Camera, Action: Particle Accelerator

Dr Andrew Steele takes a look inside the ISIS particle accelerator in Oxfordshire, where scientists use neutrons to investigate the structure of materials, and accelerator physicist Dr Suzie Sheehy explains how this massive machine works.
Alumni Weekend

Inside Innovation: The University–Business Interface

Tom Hockaday, Managing Director of Isis Innovations, talks about Oxford University’s Technology Transfer Office, helping to transfer products of university research to the business world.

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