Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East
Tuesdays, 5.30pm (unless stated otherwise), Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), SOAS
All lectures in this series are free and open to all
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Forthcoming Events
Danah Abdulla and Sarona Abuaker
The talk will discuss the role of imagination as a tool to build ideas of liberation, to cultivate alliances and material developments between the very people who are systematically denied their return.
1 February 2022, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMRethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition
Leila H. Farsakh (University of Massachusetts Boston)
This book critically explores the meaning of Palestinian statehood and the challenges that face alternative models to it.
22 February 2022, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
Marc David Baer (LSE)
Recounting the Ottomans’ remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, historian Marc David Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage.
8 March 2022, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM