BRISMES Annual Lecture
2020: Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Recovering Gender Equality in Islam: Conversations with Reformist Thinkers (watch a recording of the lecture here)
2019: Laleh Khalili
The Corporeal Life of Commerce at Sea (listen to a recording of the lecture here)
2018: Khaled Fahmy
Shari'a, dissection and justice in modern Egypt
2017 (joint lecture with BRAIS): Olivier Roy
Speaking of jihad, what do we mean by ‘religious radicalisation’?
2016: Hisham Matar
After the Revolutions: Arab Memory and Bewilderment
2015: Eugene Rogan
Beirut on the Stage: The Ottoman Great War in Four Acts
2014: Jack Straw
The Future of British Foreign Policy in the Middle East
2014: Sami Zubaida
The Quest for Cultural Authenticity and the Politics of Identity (listen to a recording of the lecture here)
2013: Haleh Afshar
Islam and the Politics of Resistance: The Case of Women in Iran.
2011: Baghat Kourani
Middle East Exceptionalism: Ended or Dented? Joint lecture with CASAW.
2010: Patrick Seale
America’s War Against Islam
2009: Roger Owen
British and French Military Intelligence in Syria and Palestine, 1914-18
2008: Yasir Suleiman
Arabic and I
2007: Clive Holes
From Suez to Iraq via Jimmy and Diga: Arabic Popular Poetry as a Form of Free Speech
2007: Ruud Peters
Shari’a Criminal Law and Human Rights: Can They Be Reconciled? Special summer lecture.
2006: Carole Hillenbrand
Images of Saladin, Past and Present
2005: Charles Tripp
Show Trials in Iraq: Theatres of Power
2004: Philip Robins
Top Hat and Crescent: Dualism Reconciled in Turkey’s Foreign Relations
2003: Roger Owen
Biography and Empire: Lord Cromer (1841-1917) Then and Now
2002: Tony Allan
Water, Food and Trade in the Middle East: Virtual Water Eliminates Water Wars?
2001: Fred Halliday
11 September 2001 and the Study of International Relations
2000: James Craig
A Life with the Arabs