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Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

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7 October 2025

Talal Al Rashoud - The Origins of Solidarity with Palestine in the Gulf, 1924-1948

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14 October 2025

Trinidad Rico - Local expertise? A postcolonial history of heritage and preservation in Qatar

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21 October 2025

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

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28 October 2025

Quinn Slobodian - A Global History of Elon Musk

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18 November 2025

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

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25 November 2025

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

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2 December 2025

Ali Karimi - Architecture Between Seasons

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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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13 January 2026

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

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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 - TBD

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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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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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17 March 2026

Ashwak Hauter - TBD

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