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Rethinking Jihad: Ideas, Politics and Conflict in the Arab World and Beyond

7 - 9 September 2009, Edinburgh

For more information on this event please visit the conference website

France and the Arab World

International Workshop
15 -16 September 2009*
Venue: Institut Français, Edinburgh

CASAW Lecture by HM Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Tuesday 15 September 2009,  Edinburgh.

HM Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Sir William Patey, to speak at CASAW.

Lecture Title: “Britain in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East”
Venue: Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre, George Square, Edinburgh.
Date: Tuesday 15 September, 16.00 - 17.00

Workshop: China in the Arab World and Emerging East Asia-Middle East Nexus 29 -30 September 2009

29 September - 30 September 2009
Venue: University of Durham, School of Government and International Affairs
The Al-Qasimi Building, Elvet Hill Road, Durham, DH1 3TU

The Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World will hold a workshop bringing together scholars from the region and from the UK, including both established scholars and those beginning work in this new field of enquiry on Middle East-East Asian relations.

The conference report is now available for download: Report_CASAW_China-Arab_Workshop.pdf

Arab Feminisms: A Critical Perspective, International Conference, Beirut, 4-7 October 2009

The Lebanese Association of Women Researchers is planning an international conference on Arab Feminisms: A Critical Perspective , in collaboration with the Women and Memory Forum, Cairo, The Department of Women’s Studies at Bir Zeit University, and the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature at the American University of Beirut and The Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World, a consortium of the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester and Durham. The conference will be held in Beirut on 4-7 October 2009.

Makes Me Think of Egypt - The British Egyptian Society Photography Competition

Makes me think of Egypt is the first photography competition organised by the British Egyptian Society - UK, jointly with the British Museum and Amateur Photographer magazine.

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