September 7, 2020
The Proxy Wars For and Against ISIS
Together with partners Carnegie Corporation New York, The Middle East Studies Forum hosted the webinar The Proxy Wars For and Against ISIS hosted by Professor Andrew Mumford from University of Nottingham. Watch the full recording here.
September 7, 2020
Five years after Russia intervened in Syria, is an end to conflict at hand?
Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh, Dr Zahid Shahab and Dr William Gourlay share their proxy war research findings in an article published on the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Read the full article here.
August 7, 2020
Plan To Build 'National Museum' In Khomeini's Mausoleum Sets Up Scene For Personality Cult
Dr Ali Mozaffari recently published a piece for Radio Farda. You can access the full article here.
July 28, 2020
Hagia Sophia and Turkish Anxiety to Lead the Muslim World
Prof Ihsan Yilmaz recently published a piece for Georgetown University Berkley Centre for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. You can read the full piece here.
July 28, 2020
Iran-China deal raises more questions than answers
Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh and MESF researcher Mahmoud Pargoo recently published a piece for the Middle East Institute. Read the full article here.
July 10, 2020
Authoritarian power in space, time and exile
Dr Dara Conduit recently published a paper in Political Geography that discusses extra-territorial authoritarian power, focusing on the dynamic between the Syrian regime and the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. Access the full paper here.
July 10, 2020
The UN Security Council must act now to save northwest Syria
Dr Dara Conduit provided a briefing in the Middle East Institute on the upcoming UNSC vote on cross-border aid in northwest Syria. Read the full piece here.
July 2, 2020
Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
The Middle East Studies Forum is proud to announce that Dr Dara Conduit has won an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Dara will be spending the next two years working on a solo project on authoritarianism and Syria.
June 25, 2020
Armenian Christians in Iran: Ethnicity, Religion and Identity in the Islamic Republic
Dr James Barry will be giving a lecture on Thursday 25 June on the Iranian Armenian community for the Society of Armenian Studies.
June 25, 2020
Impacts of China's Belt and Road Initiative on Regional Stability in South Asia
Dr Zahid Shahab recently presented to students and faculty at the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University.