Events

A seminar with Jon Nordenson, University of Oslo

A seminar with Dr. Dag Tuastad, University of Oslo

This international conference gathers renowned international scholars on Saudi Arabia from a range of academic disciplines in order to provide a broad analysis of how Saudi Arabia is responding to challenges rising before the Kingdom in the wake of the Arab Uprisings.

A seminar with Tora Systad Tyssen, University of Oslo

A seminar with Dr. Samia Mehrez, American University in Cairo

A seminar with Noah Salomon, Assistant Professor of Religion at Carleton College, Minnesota.

His research has explored the intersection of Islamic political formations and religious discourse (praise poetry, conversion narratives, and debates on Islamic knowledge) among Sufi and Salafi Muslims in contemporary Sudan.  He is currently working on a book manuscript that attempts an ethnography of the Islamic state in Sudan from 1989 to the present as well as a new project on secularism and the construction of a new Muslim minority in the nascent state of South Sudan.

A seminar with Tilde Rosmer, University of Oslo

How the Arab revolutions are shaping the new Middle East.

Et seminar med førsteamanuensis Abdel Magid al-Araki, HiOA

A seminar with Prof. Lutz E. Edzard, University of Oslo.

A seminar with Dr. Amr el-Shora with comments by Kristian Takvam Kindt

Professor i historie ved Universitetet i Oslo Hilde Henriksen Waage presenterer sin nye bok Konflikt og stormaktspolitikk i Midtøsten.

A seminar with Prof. Bjørn Olav Utvik, University of Oslo

A seminar with Dr. Mohammad Ali Saqqaf ( South Yemeni human rights activist)

A seminar with Associate Professor Arzoo Osanloo (University of Washington)

A seminar with Kåre Annaniassen

The seminar will be addressing challenges of the central Yemeni government in obtaining, holding and administer its power amidtst informal actors competing with formal state authority.

A seminar with Frida Nome and Kai Kverme

The Center for Islamic and Middle East Studies, in cooperation with the research projects The New Middle East and The Gulf Research Unit, has the pleasure of inviting you to the seminar "Tunisia: revolution, elections and prospects", featuring Marit Tjomsland, University of Bergen.

A seminar with Pinar Tank (Prio). Turkey has become the main regional powerbroker in the Middle East, and a new, proactive foreign policy is in the making. How is Turkey confronting the challenges represented by the unfolding upheavals in the region?

The Gulf Research Unit has the pleasure to invite you to the next miniseminar in our series entitled “The GRU-Seminar”. This time, Yadullah Shahibzadeh will speak on the subject of Iranian local politics.