IAS Book Launch: Biography of a Revolution. The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt.
22 June 6-8pm
At the centre of Lucia Sorbera's book are women human rights defenders — the activists, organisers, and survivors whose work made the Egyptian revolution possible.
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Coffee, Currants, and Sherbets: The ‘Exotic’ World of Cross-Cultural Food-Making in Early Modern Europe and the Middle East
19 Jun 2:30-5:30 pm
Online and @warburginstitute.bsky.social
Explores the relationship between migration & food history (1500-1800).
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We are welcoming Lucia Sorbera for the launch of her book Biography of a Revolution. The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt.
'There are three ways to end the war, and none are easy'. Dr Christian Emery (SSEES) writes for the LSE United States Politics and Policy Blog on the US-Iran conflict: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
We welcome Stefan Williamson Fa to present his monograph: 'Sonic Relations. Devotion and Community in Turkey's Eastern Borderlands'
3 June 2026, 6-8pm
The book examines how sound shapes religious and communal life among Shi‘i Muslims living in eastern Turkey.
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Award-winning journalist & activist Hadi Abdullah presents his book 'Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution' 📅21 Apr 5pm
From the aftermath of revolution, war & exile, the book is an account of survival & a meditation on witnessing, resistance & memory.
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges
UCL Middle East Research Centre
Thrilled to share the first look at Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries! 🎉
What animates Islamic politics? Coming soon from @uclpress.bsky.social 🔗 uclpress.co.uk/book/poetics-and-politics-of-islamic-imaginaries/ @takhayyul.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @uclpress.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
Our last big hurrah before we're shut down.
We hope you can join us (free lunch!)
28 April 2026, 9am-5pm
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IAS Book Launch: Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution.
21 April 2026, 5pm–6:30pm
We welcome award-winning Syrian journalist and media activist Hadi Abdullah for the presentation of his book.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
We are welcoming Stefan Williamson Fa to the IAS to present his first monograph Sonic Relations. Devotion and Community in Turkey's Eastern Borderlands.
We welcome award-winning Syrian journalist and media activist Hadi Abdullah for the presentation of this book Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution.
A one-day symposium that will celebrate the wealth of highly innovative, interdisciplinary research that has been generated within the auspices of the IAS over the last ten years.
We welcome award-winning Syrian journalist and media activist Hadi Abdullah for the presentation of this book Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution.
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UCL Middle East Research Centre
UCL Middle East Research Centre
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It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS.
We will close our doors forever on 31 July 2026.
Follow the link to leave thoughts, comments, memories 💗
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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies
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IAS Book Launch: Biography of a Revolution
22 June 6-8pm
Tracing the long genealogy of Egyptian feminist organising across the twentieth century, she shows how women's resistance to both state & domestic violence created the political conditions for 2011.
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It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS on 31 July 2026.
Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries shows how narratives of culture, masculinist restoration and revolutionary spirit drive, connect and reinvent different forms of politics in Muslim majority...
