Neil Ketchley

Middle East Centre

Middle East Centre

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

Middle East Centre Booktalk

Middle East Centre Booktalk

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

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Contemporary Islamic Studies

Title	Description	People	Date	Captions
From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics	In this Friday seminar, Jérôme Drevon discusses his book ‘From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics’ (OUP 2024).	Jérôme Drevon, Neil Ketchley	11 March, 2025
The Axis of Resistance	A panel with Kamran Matin (University of Sussex), Yasmeen al-Eryani (Tampere Peace Research Institute) and Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford). Chaired by Raihan Ismail (University of Oxford).	Kamran Matin, Yasmeen al-Eryani, Neil Ketchley, Raihan Ismail	11 February, 2025
The Houthis: From Local Insurgents to a Regional Actor - Exploiting Global Solidarities	Yasmeen Eryani contributing to Session 3: Reverberations of Resistance, at a November 2024 Contemporary Islamic Studies Oxford / SEPAD, Lancaster University workshop: Transnational Islamic Movements: Global and Local Realities.	Yasmeen Eryani, Neil Ketchley	13 January, 2025
Cheaters Dilemma: Iraq, WMD and the path to the 2003 war	Why did Iraq fail to prove its WMD absence before the 2003 invasion? This seminar examines new evidence from Iraq and United Nations sources to shed light on the internal debates leading up to the 2003 war.	Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Neil Ketchley	11 July, 2023
The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism	This talk explores the impact of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 on militant Islamism using new evidence.	Thomas Hegghammer, Neil Ketchley	11 July, 2023
Book Launch: Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism	Dr Hertog presents the key arguments of his new short monograph “Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism” published by Cambridge University Press.	Steffen Hertog, Neil Ketchley	23 March, 2023
All Jihad Is Local: the Micro-Politics of Militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and Beyond	Dr Raphaël Lefèvre in conversation with Dr Neil Ketchley about his recent book, 'Jihad in the City: Militant Islamism and Contentious Politics in Tripoli' (Cambridge University Press, 2021).	Raphael Lefevre, Neil Ketchley	16 March, 2022
The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution	Dr Neil Ketchley in conversation with Professor Walter Armbrust about his current research.	Neil Ketchley, Walter Armbrust	3 February, 2022
The Politics of Water Scarcity in the Case of Jordan	Dr Hussam Hussein investigates the construction of the discourse of water scarcity in Jordan, and the political economy of the water sector.	Hussam Hussein, Neil Ketchley, Michael Willis	11 November, 2021