This book talk was delivered at the Middle East Centre on Thursday 24 February 2026 by Tareq Baconi (author) in conversation with Dr Ammar Azzouz (Somerville College). Tareq Baconi is a Palestinian writer, scholar, and activist. He is the grandson of refugees from Jerusalem and Haifa and grew up between Amman and Beirut. His work has appeared in, among other ... Show More
Mar 25
A keynote conversation with Saeb Eigner about Artists of the Middle East - 1900 to Now
In this lecture, Saeb Eigner offers a journey through more than a century of modern and contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa, as documented in ‘Artists of the Middle East: 1900 to Now’. Spanning from 1900 to the present, the book brings together over 250 major a ... Show More
59m 27s
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 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 co-a ... Show More
51m 44s