On March 15, Professor Akbarzadeh will talk at a joint Australian Institute of International Affairs/MESF event on the Iranian presidential election. Book here.
Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed publishes new USIP report
Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed has published a United States Institute of Peace (USIP) special report on Peace Education in Pakistan. Read the report here.
Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed speaks to Cultural Entrepreneurship course
On 2 March 2017, Dr Zahid Ahmed gave a talk on “Peace and development in Pakistan: an analysis” at Cultural Infusion’s Cultural Entrepreneurship Course in Melbourne.
Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh interviewed on VOA
Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh was interviewed on Voice of America on former Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s letter to President Trump. Listen here.
Swedish politicians’ veiled let-down of Iranian feminists
New work by MESF PhD candidate Azadeh Davachi has been published online in Eureka Street. Read here.
Counter-extremism in Pakistan: success or falling short?
MESF Research Fellow Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed published new work in Peace Direct’s Insight on Conflict. View the piece here.
The long game: Five years of simulating the Middle East
New paper by Dr Mat Hardy and A/Prof Sally Totman on their ground-breaking in-class simulations in the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. Read here.
Deakin students return from 2016 Middle East Studies Tour
In November 2016 Dr Mat Hardy and A/Prof Sally Totman Marshall took 24 undergraduates majoring in Middle East Studies to Jordan and Qatar. Read more.
Women and Iran’s elections: ‘This is not the atmosphere for change’
New work by Dr Rebecca Barlow in the Lowy Institute’s The Interpreter on women in Iran’s upcoming elections. Read the piece here.
Deakin Arabic students return from Oman
A/Prof Hakeem Kasem led 30 Arabic In-country Program students to Oman for classes at Sultan Qaboos College for Teaching Arabic to Non-native Speakers from Nov 2016 to Jan 2017.