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
William Facey gave a talk for the MBI Al Jaber Foundation and The IASA on his most recent book about Charles Huber, making the case for Huber to be considered France’s greatest Arabian explorer.
Matthew Teller, in his talk about his new book, the Nine Quarters of Jerusalem, A New Biography of the Old City, traced the origins and development of Jerusalem’s cartography.
The MBI Al Jaber Foundation co-hosted its first online lecture of 2022 with the International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA) and the British-Yemeni Society (B-YS).
‘Juifs d’Orient. Une histoire plurimillenaire’ is the final part of a trilogy of exhibitions dedicated to each of the three monotheistic religions shown at the at the Institut du Monde Arabe
