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Upcoming
We are pleased to host PhD candidate Orwa Ajjoub who will speak about "How Leaders Reshape Social Identity in a Jihadi Group? The Case of the Syria Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham 2013-2017".
CIMS and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs are pleased to announce a co-organized event featuring a lecture by Senior Research Fellow Tine Gade.
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CIMS ønsker velkommen til fredagsseminar med førsteamanuensis Nora Sunniva Eggen fra Det teologiske fakultet.
CIMS is pleased to welcome you to a book launch event with author Mehdi Mousavi, translator Fatemeh Ekhtesari and discussant Senior Lecturer in Persian Samad Alavi.
We are pleased to host Senior Lecturer Erling Lorentzen Sogge who will speak about "Heavy metal in Lebanon: How a vilified subculture found ways to endure"
We are pleased to host Assistant Professor Irena Kalhousová who will speak about “Israel at the Ballot Box: Parties, Politics, and the Future of Israel”
We are pleased to host Assoc. Prof. Jonas Dræge who will speak about "Media and the Politics of Legitimation in Post-Assad Syria"
We are pleased to host Senior Researcher Thomas Pierret who will speak about “Religious policies in the New Syria”
CIMS are pleased to welcome you to this seminar talk by Dag Tuastad (University of Oslo).
CIMS and the Norwegian Institute of International Studies (NUPI) are pleased to announce a co-organized event featuring a book launch with author Dr. Charlotte Lysa and co-panelists: Dr Laila Makboul and Prof. Emeritus Bjørn Olav Utvik.
CIMS and the Norwegian Institute of International Studies (NUPI) are pleased to announce a co-organized event featuring a lecture by Professor Jerome Gunning.
Responses to Mass Rape and Children Born of Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995)
CIMS and the Faculty of Theology are pleased to announce a co-organized event featuring a lecture by Ehlimana Memišević.
Join us for a CIMS seminar talk by Professor Einar Wigen.
Join us for this talk by Prof. Munzoul Assal.
We are pleased to welcome you to this seminar talk by Eirik Kvindesland (Austrian Academy of Sciences).
Join us for a CIMS lecture with Dr. Anne Likuski, senior researcher at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI).
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Join us for a CIMS roundtable seminar with Professor Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi and Senior Lecturer Samad Josef Alavi, both from Middle East Studies at IKOS.
This seminar will be based on Marc Lynch’s recent book, America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region (Hurst, 2025).
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This seminar will be based on Stéphane Lacroix's recent book which came out in August 2025, Twilight of the Saints: The History and Politics of Salafism in Contemporary Egypt (Columbia University Press, 2025).
In this seminar, Professor Frank Weigelt will outline the central functional principles of the system of Arabic politeness formulas and explore the religious and cultural foundations on which it rests. His analysis will focus on the dialect of Damascus.
We are pleased to welcome you to this seminar, where historian Idriss Jebari will share insights from his forthcoming book.
Join us for this talk by Loren Lybarger (Ohio University)
We are pleased to welcome you to to the launch of Erik Skare's new book on Palestinian Islamism. Join us for a presentation of the book, which will be followed by a panel discussion with the author and guests Hilde Henriksen Waage and Jacob Høigilt
By Geoffrey Hughes, University of Exeter