We just updated our webpage with a list of our public events for Semester 2 2025. Go and have a look!.@EdinburghPIR @uoessps .

To mark the end of classes and get ready for dissertation work, our cohort came together today for a productive WIP session and end of year reception. Wishing everyone good luck!.@uoessps @EdinburghPIR

University of Edinburgh’s “Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies …, seeks to appoint a Teaching Fellow in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies. The position will be available from 1st September 2025 to 31th December 2026.”.

RT @EdinburghPIR: Thank you @NicholasHopton for visiting @uoessps - both events were packed and the audience highly engaged! Thanks to Dr N….

Full house today at our Britain and the New Order in the Middle East conversation with UK diplomat and former ambassador Nicholas Hopton. Very interesting discussion to mark our last event for the academic year at Middle East Research Group! @EdinburghPIR @uoessps

New tickets added. Join us next week!. @NicholasHopton @EdinburghPIR @uoessps .

It was a pleasure listening to and learning from Razaw Salihy this afternoon on the Iraqi Personal Status Law. Excellent comments by our discussant Jaida Casakit Keaveney kick started an engaging conversation. Thank you for everyone who joined us today! @razsalayi @JaidaKeaveney

Next week! Join us if you can for this excellent talk.

Check out our upcoming public lecture by Amnesty International's Razaw Salihy on the timely and important topic of the Iraqi Personal Status Law recent amendment. Apl 24. RSVP required.

Our co-Convenor, Dr Nida Alahmad will be in conversation with former UK ambassador Nicholas Hopton on "Britain and the New Order in the Middle East." May 15. If you are in town please join us (RSVP required). @EdinburghPIR @uoessps .

Join us April 24 for a public lecture by Amnesty International's Iraq researcher Razaw Salihy on The Politics of the Iraqi Personal Status Law. RSVP required. @EdinburghPIR @UoELawSchool .

Thank you everyone who joined us for a very stimulating discussion with Dr Sara Ababneh on Reclaiming Watani Work in Jordan and comments by Jamie Allinson .@uoessps @EdinburghPIR

Check out our faculty member Dr Nicola Perugini’s talk @PeruginiNic.

We are happy to co-badge Dr Hassan Jabareen's talk at the Edinburgh Centre for Int'l and Global Law on Emergency Measures in an Undeclared Emergency Against Palestinians in Israel After 7 October. Mar 18, RSVP required. @uoessps @EdinburghPIR .

Tomorrow!.

RT @uoessps: Happy International Women's Day!. Today, we celebrate the amazing achievements of women past and present - including the rem….

Join us March 13 for a talk by Sara Ababneh on how the 2011-12 hirak movement has challenged the identity paradigm that is used to understand them, and how class was a far more important mobilising element. RSVP in link. @uoessps @EdinburghPIR .

RT @PeruginiNic: This Friday we are hosting @rhys_machold in our @EdinburghPIR @uoessps Contemporary Middle East Series. Registration here:….

This Friday!.

Next week! Get your link by RSVPing. .

Join us Feb 13 for online roundtable: "After the Revolution: What is next for Syria and Syrians?" with our excellent speakers @DukhanHaian, Dr. Dima Hussain, @ThomasPierret, @CharlesLawley chaired by @AnnZuntz. RSVP! .@uoessps @EdinburghPIR .