Marilyn Booth

Middle East Centre

Middle East Centre

The Middle East Centre, founded in 1957 at St Antony’s College is the centre for the in...

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

A Corpus, Not a Canon

The Library of Arabic Literature is a remarkable undertaking. It is publishing, in Arab...

Almanac – The Oxford Middle East Podcast

Almanac – The Oxford Middle East Podcast

Almanac is a student-run initiative at the University of Oxford. Every two weeks, a num...

Middle East Centre Booktalk

Middle East Centre Booktalk

Welcome to Middle East Centre Booktalk – the Oxford podcast on new books about the Midd...

Title	Description	People	Date	Captions
Writing Middle Eastern Lives: Biography in Modern Arab History	Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, author of ‘An Impossible Friendship’, Marilyn Booth, author of ‘The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz’, and Peter Hill, author of ‘Prophet of Reason’, discuss the writing of biography in modern Middle Eastern history.	Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, Marilyn Booth, Peter Hill, Eugene Rogan	29 November, 2024
Women’s Movements and Citizenship in the Middle East	Women's Rights Research Seminar where guest speaker, Dr Roel Meijer (Guest Lecturer in Islam Studies, Radboud Universiteit) presents on Women’s movements and citizenship in the Middle East.	Roel Meijer, Maryam Alemzadeh, Marilyn Booth	9 August, 2023
Albert Hourani’s Impact	2022 is the 60th anniversary of the publication of Albert Hourani’s magnum opus Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939.	Matthew Smith, Charles Ough, Paul Dresch, Eugene Rogan, Marilyn Booth	17 October, 2022
The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt	Marilyn Booth speaking on her new book.	Marilyn Booth	2 March, 2022
Women's Rights Research Seminar - From Kurdistan to Europe: Kurdish Literary, Artistic and Cultural Activism by Kurdish Women Intellectuals	Dr Ozlem Belcim Galip (Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow, The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series, chaired by Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College).	Ozlem Belcim Galip, Marilyn Booth	1 May, 2019
Women and the 19th Century Emergence of the Arabic Novel	Seminar presented by Professor Marilyn Booth at the Middle East Centre on 26th February 2016.	Marilyn Booth	4 March, 2016
Translating the Corpus	LAL’s remit, ambition and complexity. Philip Kennedy and Richard Sieburth lead discussion with Roger Allen, Humphrey Davies, Marilyn Booth and Robyn Creswell.	Roger Allen, Humphrey Davies, Marilyn Booth, Robyn Creswell	29 May, 2015