Middle East in Prague TeamDec 19, 2019Protest Movements and Islamist Mobilisation in North Africa: Looking Beyond the Arab UprisingsProfessor Frédéric Volpi (University of Edinburgh)
Middle East in Prague TeamOct 24, 2019Scientific method guides their steps: Two Late Ottoman Officials between Modernity and Tradition in Dr. Necati Alkan (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg)
Middle East in Prague TeamMay 16, 2019Power and Ridicule: political mockery and subversion in the Middle East and North AfricaProfessor Charles R H Tripp (SOAS University of London)
Middle East in Prague TeamApr 11, 2019After the general elections of April 9th: Whither Israel?Professor Alain Dieckhoff (Director of CERI Sciences Po)
Middle East in Prague TeamMar 21, 2019Authorizing feminist readings of Islamic history: Zaynab Fawwaz and the gender politics of Egyptian Professor Marilyn Booth (University of Oxford)
Middle East in Prague TeamJan 28, 2019The Changing Meanings of the Word 'Sultan' in the History of Islamic RulershipProfessor Hugh Kennedy (SOAS University of London)
Middle East in Prague TeamDec 13, 2018For They Cannot Speak: Two Early Examples of Animal Protection Laws in the Islamic WorldProfessor Richard Wittmann (Orient-Institut Istanbul)
Middle East in Prague TeamDec 6, 2018Why Tunisia is Not Syria: The Arab Spring Eight Years OnProfessor Eberhard Kienle (CERI Sciences Po, Paris)
Middle East in Prague TeamNov 30, 2018Getting High at the Gates of Felicity Stefano Taglia (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences) The use of stimulants, what we now refer to as recreational drugs (m...
Middle East in Prague TeamNov 29, 2018Gendering Authoritarianism & Resistance: The Significance of Body Politics in the Middle EastProfessor Nadje Al-Ali (Watson Institute for international and public affairs Brown University)
Middle East in Prague TeamOct 18, 2018Sultans as Saviors: Early Modern Mediterranean Jewish Accounts of the Ottoman RulersProfessor Marc David Baer (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Middle East in Prague TeamOct 12, 2018Late-Ottoman Identities: The National, Transnational and Marginal
Middle East in Prague TeamMay 15, 2018The (Ir)Relevance of Ethnicity in a Multiethnic EmpireDr. Fred Anscombe (Department of History, Classics and Archaeology Birkbeck, University of London)
Middle East in Prague TeamApr 19, 2018An Excellent Place to Spend the Winter’: Edirne (Adrianople) as an Ottoman CapitalProfessor Amy Singer (Department of Middle Eastern & African History Tel Aviv University)
Middle East in Prague TeamMar 15, 2018Middle East Movie Nights with the Filozofická Fakulta“Middle East Movie Nights with the Filozofická Fakulta” screened Gallipoli (dir. Tolga Örnek, 2008). The film was introduced and moderate...
Middle East in Prague TeamMar 1, 2018Orientalism, the Ottoman Empire, and Turkey:An Ambiguousand Multilayered Context Professor Edhem ELDEM (Boğaziçi University and Collège de France)
Middle East in Prague TeamDec 14, 2017Middle East Movie Nights with the Filozofická Fakulta“Middle East Movie Nights with the Filozofická Fakulta” screened Empire 1453 (dir. Faruk Aksoy, 2012). The film was introduced and modera...
Middle East in Prague TeamDec 4, 2017Outcasts and the State in the Late Ottoman Empire.A one-day conference organized by Dr. Stefano Taglia (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences) and featuring seven international sc...
