| The chaos (fawḍà) Bashshar al-Asad warned against – Damascus University 10th November 2005 – and present-day Syria |
On Friday 21 February 2025, Professor Johannes Waardenburg gave the Middle East Centre’s Friday seminar |
Johannes Waardenburg, Walter Armbrust |
6 March, 2025 |
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| Sudan's current war: a longer view on peacemaking and prospects |
A talk from Dr Richard Barltrop, Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre, reflecting on the current war in Sudan and exploring lessons from the longer history of peacemaking in Sudan and other recent civil wars. |
Richard Barltrop, Walter Armbrust |
7 February, 2025 |
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| Tahrir, Gaza, and beyond: revolution, liberation, and praxis |
Researcher and writer, Rusha Latif, gives a talk based on her new book ‘Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution’ |
Rusha Latif, Walter Armbrust |
31 October, 2024 |
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| Considering the Political Options in Gaza After Three Months of War |
In the opening meeting of the Middle East Centre’s Hilary Term seminar series, the Fellows of the Centre led a panel discussion to set out the agenda for the series examining the political options following the Gaza War. |
Eugene Rogan, Walter Armbrust, Maryam Alemzadeh, Raihan Ismail |
5 February, 2024 |
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| 'The Transformation of Iraq since the 2003 Invasion: From "The Dodgy Dossier", to Human Security, Gender, and the Nation's Future in the Face of Climate Change' |
This lecture examines the resilience of the Iraqi state and nation before and after the 2003 invasion. |
Ibrahim al-Marashi, Walter Armbrust |
2 August, 2023 |
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| 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 |
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| What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East? |
This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 3rd December 2021 for the Middle East Centre |
Christian Henderson, Walter Armbrust |
8 December, 2021 |
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| Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf |
Oil price volatility and accelerated energy transitions away from hydrocarbons to meet climate change mitigation measures have presented existential threats to the economies of hydrocarbon-dependent welfare states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). |
Manal Shehabi, Walter Armbrust, Michael Willis |
22 November, 2021 |
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| The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its afterlives |
This is a recording of a live webinar held on 29th October 2021 for the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East. |
jamie furniss, Walter Armbrust |
17 November, 2021 |
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| Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East |
MEC Friday Webinar. This is a recording of a live webinar held on 15th October 2021 for the first episode of the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East. |
Michael J. Willis, Walter Armbrust, Laurent Mignon, Usaama al-Azami |
4 November, 2021 |
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| Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema |
Join us for Booktalk Episode 9, Professor Deborah Starr (Cornell University) in conversation about her new book, Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema, published by California Press. |
Deborah Starr, Walter Armbrust |
21 October, 2021 |
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| Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics |
Join us for Booktalk Episode 8, Dr Carl Rommel (University of Helsinki) in conversation about his new book Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics, published by University of Texas Press in July 2021. |
Carl Rommel, Walter Armbrust |
29 September, 2021 |
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| Counter-Revolutions Vs. Counter-Marginalization Movements: (Re)Visiting the Online Tug-of-War a Decade After the Arab Spring |
Dr Marc Owen Jones (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) and Dr Sahar Khamis (University of Maryland) give a talk for the MEC Friday Seminars Series. Chaired by Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College, Oxford). |
Marc Owen Jones, Sahar Khamis, Walter Armbrust, Eugene Rogan |
17 March, 2021 |
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| Apocalymbo: Trickster Politics in the Age of the Pandemic (and Other Crises) |
Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College, Oxford), author of Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution (2019), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series on 20th November 2020. |
Walter Armbrust, Michael Willis |
25 November, 2020 |
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| Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution |
Professor Walter Armbrust (St. Antony's College, Oxford) gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre seminar series. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St. Antony's College, Oxford). |
Walter Armbrust |
22 October, 2019 |
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| And then God created the Middle East and said let there be breaking news |
Karl Sharro (architect, satirist and Middle East commentator), gives a seminar for the Middle East Studies Centre. Chaired by Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College). |
Karl Sharro, Walter Armbrust |
7 December, 2018 |
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| Panel 5: Competing Visions of Tahrir: Trickster: Taufiq 'Ukasha, the Perpetuation of Liminal Crisis, and the Shaping of Counter-revolutionary Discourse |
Walter Armbrust examines the 'counter-revolution' through the lens of television talk show host Taufiq 'Ukasha, a 'trickster' prone to generating perverted forms of social knowledge. |
Walter Armbrust |
25 May, 2012 |
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