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Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

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21 October 2025

Toby Craig Jones - The USS Vincennes Shooting of Iran Air Flight 655

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21 October 2025

Conversations in Global Philosophy: Intercultural and Reconstructive Humane Learning and Philosophy

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27 October 2025

CSI Monday Majlis: Badr Tachouche

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28 October 2025

Quinn Slobodian - A Global History of Elon Musk

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29 October 2025

Visiting Speaker Event with Professor Ismail Nashef

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3 November 2025

CSI Monday Majlis: Michael Shenkar

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3 November 2025

Conversations in Global Philosophy: Why Plato Matters?

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10 November 2025

CSI Monday Majlis: Godefroid de Callatay and Laura Tribuzio

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12 November 2025

Conversations in Global Philosophy: Putting Chinese Philosophy Back into the Canon

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17 November 2025

CSI Monday Majlis: Edith Szanto

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18 November 2025

Noora Lori - Passport Power: Precarity and Privilege in the Gulf

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24 November 2025

CSI Monday Majlis: Safa Mahmoudian

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25 November 2025

Christian Henderson - Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf states in the global food system

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1 December 2025

CSI Monday Majlis: Pranav Prakash

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2 December 2025

Ali Karimi - Architecture Between Seasons

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8 December 2025

CSI Monday Majlis: Alireza Doostdar

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9 December 2025

Mira Al Hussein - Political Naturalisation and the Conscription of Transit Citizens in the UAE

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9 December 2025

Conversations in Global Philosophy: Intercultural Philosophy and Mesoamerican Traditions

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13 January 2026

Mona Damulji - The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil in Iran and Iraq

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19 January 2026

CSI Monday Majlis: Gabriel Said Reynolds

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20 January 2026

Elham Fakhro - A discussion of The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization

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27 January 2026

Beeta Baghoolizadeh - Jinn and Haunted Memories of the Indian Ocean

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3 February 2026

Marc Owen Jones - Dysinfluence: Transnational Deception Operations in the Middle East

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10 February 2026

Conversations in Global Philosophy: The Linguistic Carnival of Thought

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10 February 2026

Ahmed Al Maazmi - Portuguese Black Serpents Meet Safavid Dragons: The Intellectual World of Indian Ocean Imperialism

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17 February 2026

Laure Assaf - Transient territories: Arab youth and the making of urban subjectivities in Abu Dhabi

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24 February 2026

Crystal Ennis - Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman

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25 February 2026

Visiting Speaker Event with Dr Zeina Maasri

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3 March 2026

Andrea Wright - Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea

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10 March 2026

Mattin Biglari - Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933–51

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11 March 2026

Conversations in Global Philosophy: Indian Tantric Nondualism: Abhinavagupta's Solution to the Mind-Body Problem

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17 March 2026

Ashwak Hauter - TBD

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7 April 2026

Conversations in Global Philosophy: Philosophy without Borders: A New Sourcebook in Global Philosophy

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21 April 2026

Conversations in Global Philosophy: Chinese Philosophy in Transcultural Contexts: The Method of Sublation in Global Thought

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11 May 2026

Conversations in Global Philosophy: The Philosophy of Zhuangzi

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2 June 2026

Conversations in Global Philosophy: Hospitality

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9 June 2026

Conversations in Global Philosophy: Poetic Thinking in Sufi Philosophy

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