Study MENA Politics with me in Barcelona!
I'm teaching a 3-day course w/ a crack team of top experts from June 30. Everyone (men, all ages, etc!): yalla!
We’ll delve into a handful of gripping, hotly debated Qs that illuminate major ongoing developments in Tunisia 🇹🇳, Saudi 🇸🇦, Oct. 7 🇮🇱🇵🇸 & beyond ⬇️📚
I'm teaching a 3-day course w/ a crack team of top experts from June 30. Everyone (men, all ages, etc!): yalla!
We’ll delve into a handful of gripping, hotly debated Qs that illuminate major ongoing developments in Tunisia 🇹🇳, Saudi 🇸🇦, Oct. 7 🇮🇱🇵🇸 & beyond ⬇️📚
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Umut Özkırımlı
No summer plans yet? Join us at the 4th edition of the Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean & the Middle East.
As Bei Dao put it: “The dark night gave me dark eyes, but I use them to seek the light.”
This is not just a school. It’s a refusal to surrender. Let’s seek the light—together.
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As Bei Dao put it: “The dark night gave me dark eyes, but I use them to seek the light.”
This is not just a school. It’s a refusal to surrender. Let’s seek the light—together.
1️⃣
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1. Whether the “Islamist threat” outpaced “secular” state threats to women’s & LGBT rights in Tunisia, Egypt & Turkey
➡️ And how this compares to Qs of whether the UAE & Qatar are secularising
➡️ And what this teaches us about methodology, double standards & narrative divides in the 🇮🇱🇵🇸 conflict
➡️ And why identifying multidirectional “Orientalisms” helps us prioritise field-grounded evidence over bias in MENA’s most polarised divides
I’ve lived most of my adult life in the MENA region (Tunisia, Turkey, UAE) & love vibrant Chatham House Rules Q&A.