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Professor Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College) discusses her new translation of ‘Sa'iba’ by Alis al-Bustani (1891) with Samir al-Boustany and Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony’s College). ABOUT THE BOOK Alis al-Bustani's 'Sa'iba' (1891) is one of the earliest known novels authored in ...  Show more

Author, Dr Orçun Can Okan (St Antony’s College) introduces his new book 'Needs That Bind: Materializing Nationality in Post-Ottoman Regimes', chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony’s College). ‘Needs That Bind’ reconsiders the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire and the const ...  Show more

On this week's episode of the podcast, Elham Fakhro of the Harvard Kennedy School joins Marc Lynch to discuss her new book, The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization. In this book, Elham Fakhro demonstrates how shared security concerns, economi ...  Show more

In this lecture, Professor Amnon Aran will explore the interplay between domestic politics and strategy in Israeli foreign policy, from the end of the Cold War to the 2023-24 Israel-Hamas war. Reflecting upon this tumultuous period in Israel’s history, he shall examine key events ...  Show more

Send us Fan MailJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist John Mearsheimer as they discuss Professor Mearsheimer’s latest book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy. Hailed as the most influential foreign policy realist of his generation, Mearsheimer and ...  Show more

This event was a launch of Professor Christopher Phillips' latest book 'Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East' published by Yale University Press. The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a ...  Show more