Protest Movements and Islamist Mobilisation in North Africa: Looking Beyond the Arab Uprisings
Professor Frédéric Volpi (University of Edinburgh)
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Scientific method guides their steps: Two Late Ottoman Officials between Modernity and Tradition in
Dr. Necati Alkan (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg)
Power and Ridicule: political mockery and subversion in the Middle East and North Africa
Professor Charles R H Tripp (SOAS University of London)
After the general elections of April 9th: Whither Israel?
Professor Alain Dieckhoff (Director of CERI Sciences Po)
Authorizing feminist readings of Islamic history: Zaynab Fawwaz and the gender politics of Egyptian
Professor Marilyn Booth (University of Oxford)
The Changing Meanings of the Word 'Sultan' in the History of Islamic Rulership
Professor Hugh Kennedy (SOAS University of London)
For They Cannot Speak: Two Early Examples of Animal Protection Laws in the Islamic World
Professor Richard Wittmann (Orient-Institut Istanbul)
Why Tunisia is Not Syria: The Arab Spring Eight Years On
Professor Eberhard Kienle (CERI Sciences Po, Paris)
Getting 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...
Gendering Authoritarianism & Resistance: The Significance of Body Politics in the Middle East
Professor Nadje Al-Ali (Watson Institute for international and public affairs Brown University)
Sultans as Saviors: Early Modern Mediterranean Jewish Accounts of the Ottoman Rulers
Professor Marc David Baer (London School of Economics and Political Science)
The (Ir)Relevance of Ethnicity in a Multiethnic Empire
Dr. Fred Anscombe (Department of History, Classics and Archaeology Birkbeck, University of London)
An Excellent Place to Spend the Winter’: Edirne (Adrianople) as an Ottoman Capital
Professor Amy Singer (Department of Middle Eastern & African History Tel Aviv University)
Middle 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...
Orientalism, the Ottoman Empire, and Turkey:An Ambiguousand Multilayered Context
Professor Edhem ELDEM (Boğaziçi University and Collège de France)
Middle 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...
Outcasts 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...