H.E. Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber today signed a collaborative agreement with the European Institute of Peace, a Brussels-based public interest foundation focusing on peace building and conflict resolution.
Trustee Sir Tim Lankester and Director Carolyn Perry were at SOAS this week to see Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi lecture on ‘Socio-Political Art by Arab Women Artists’ in front of a packed audience in the Brunei Lecture theatre, SOAS.
Foundation Patron and Chairman Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber paid a visit to the MBI Al Jaber Conference Suite at SOAS to see the facilities in use. The Conference suite is in the Paul Webley Wing of Senate House on the SOAS campus. The Paul Webley Wing was opened as part of SOAS’s Centenary Campaign, to which the Foundation also contributed in 2016.
The MBI Al Jaber Foundation recently made a donation to Wells Maltings arts centre. Wells Maltings embraces education in the broadest sense, and the Foundation’s donation builds on our previous commitments to arts in the community, through support for exhibitions and events in the UK and beyond over the last two decades.
The SOAS Middle East Institute, founded by our Patron and Chairman Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber, is looking to recruit a Programme Manager. It's a great role, and you get to work with the holder of the MBI Al Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies, Prof. Lina Khatib.
Professor Janet Watson, Professor Dawn Chatty and Dr Jack Wilson spoke on their contributions to the recently published book Language and Ecology in Southern and Eastern Arabia
Dr Lina Khatib, an international expert on policy, politics, security, and culture in relation to the Middle East, has been appointed as the new MBI Al Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies and Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute.
On December 12th, 2022, Professor Nancy Um, Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Creation at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, presented Mocha in the 17th and 18th Centuries – Yemen’s Age of Coffee
