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Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD), Hamad Bin Khalifa University Doha, 20-21 April 2020

The conference aims at developing a new, more constructive agenda for Middle East studies which recognizes the region’s evolving characteristics and challenges, but also sees these in the wider context of international dynamics and interactions.

This conference presents an opportunity to recast the Middle East beyond the reductive daily headlines. The case for the conference and its timing emanate from an urgent need to redress a distorted research agenda which has in recent years been unduly shaped by conflict, radicalism and security issues. 

The principal objective is to take steps to develop a new, more constructive agenda for Middle East studies which recognises the region’s evolving characteristics and challenges, but also sees these in the wider context of international dynamics and interactions. We encourage participants to re-think and re-imagine the epistemologies, directions and agendas of our field. 

Information: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/mec