In this seminar, Ambassador Nabeela Al Mulla, author, is in conversation with Professor Eugene Rogan, MEC Director, about her new book ‘Breaking New Ground on the Global Stage: Memoirs of Kuwait’s First Woman Ambassador’. In this Gender and Sexuality Series seminar, Ambassador Nabeela Al Mulla, author, is in conversation with Professor Eugene Rogan ... Show More
Nov 13
Food and Language: Rhetorical-Cultural Excavations in Arab Heritage / الطعام والكلام: حفريات بلاغية ثقافية في التراث العربي
Seminar in English and Arabic. Professor Said Laouadi, winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2025, discusses his book ‘Food and Language: Rhetorical-Cultural Excavations in Arab Heritage’ (2023), with Professor Eugene Rogan. Seminar in English and Arabic. Professor Said Laouadi, ... Show More
57m 47s
Nov 11
Safe Corridor
This seminar discusses the inaugural Bait AlGhasham DarArab International Translation Prize winner, ‘Safe Corridor’; a bold, unforgettable novel of war, imagination, and survival. Kurdish-Syrian novelist, Jan Dost; translator, Professor Marilyn Booth; Director of the Bait AlGhash ... Show More
58m 52s
Jun 2025
Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
In this Contemporary Islamic Studies seminar, Dr Haroon Bashir discusses his new book ‘Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition’ published in January 2025 by Oxford University Press Bio: Dr Haroon Bashir is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the ... Show More
52m 48s
Jan 2025
The Abraham Accords (S. 14, Ep. 2)
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
43m 10s
Jul 2024
Strategy and Domestic Politics in Israeli Foreign Policy
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
1h 16m
Nov 2023
Season 3, Episode 1: John Mearsheimer, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
Send us a textJoin 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 c ... Show More
51m 44s