17 March 2022 – the Center for Russian Studies we will be hosting John Mearsheimer, who will deliver a talk on Iran’s nuclear program. For the discussion, he will be joined by Mahsa Rouhi and Tytti Erästö. To register for this event, please click here.
17 February 2022 – we hosted Annie Tracy Samuel, who was joined by Eric Lob. In her recent book, The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (Cambridge, 2021), Annie Tracy Samuel presents an innovative and compelling history of this organization and, by using the Iran-Iraq War as a focal point, analyzes the links…
16 November 2021 – In the third Global Middle East Seminar this fall, we will host Özlem Altan-Olcay and Evren Balta for a discussion of their new book, The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). Their work “explores the diverse meanings and values that people outside of the United…
11 November 2021 – We are pleased to host Görkem Aydemir and Claire Kaiser for a Zoom webinar. Görkem will draw on her current research for a talk titled “Reviving the Passports of a Dead State: Il/legalities in the de facto Georgia-Abkhazia Borderland” and Claire will serve as discussant. To register, please click here. Görkem Aydemir…
18 October 2021 – In the second GMES seminar this year, we will host Michael Reynolds and Alp Yenen, who will each present new research on the formation of the modern Middle East during the Ottoman Empire’s collapse and the establishment of post-Ottoman states. Both scholars are currently working on the Young Turks: Reynolds is…
21 September 2021 – In the first panel of the Global Middle East Seminar Series for the Fall 2021 semester, authors Malcolm Byrne and Kian Byrne discussed their new book, Worlds Apart: A Documentary History of U.S.-Iranian Relations, 1978-2018 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). In this unique history, Byrne and Byrne put the records first to…
3 June 2021 – In the fifth iteration of the Global Middle East Seminar series, founded by the Woodrow Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program and Bilkent University’s Center for Russian Studies, renowned historian Joseph Sassoon and Wilson Center Fellow Asher Orkaby sat down with Michael Brill, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Near Eastern…
6 May 2021 – the fourth event of our Global Middle East Seminar Series, organized together with the Wilson Center, featured Timothy Nunan and Katelyn Tietzen. They were be joined by Barın Kayaoğlu, who acted as discussant. The panelists discussed Iranian and Iraqi foreign policies in the 1980s, and they looked beyond the Iran-Iraq War…
5 April 2021 – in the third event in the Global Middle East Seminar Series, co-organized with the Wilson Center, Lorenz Lüthi joined us to discuss his book, Cold Wars: Asia, The Middle East, Europe (Cambridge, 2020). Lüthi was joined by Guy Laron, Alexander Shelby, and Eliza Gheorghe to discuss the parts of his book that…
4 March 2021 – In the second event of the Global Middle East Seminar Series, Mahsa Rouhi and Hassan Elbahtimy led a panel on the history of nuclear politics in the Middle East, focusing on Iran and Egypt. They were joined by discussants Or Rabinowitz and Eliza Gheorghe. A recording of the event is available for…