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Welcome to the Institute of Middle Eastern, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies! We are an interdisciplinary research institute situated in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. On these pages, you will find details of our research, events and opportunities to participate in the work of MECACS. We welcome queries from prospective students, academics and practitioners, media and policymakers from or on the studied regions.
Seminar Report – The UK’s Afghanistan Crossroads: where do we go from here?
Thursday Oct 31 2024 Speaker: Dr Davood Moradian, Director, Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies, Kabul, Afghanistan Seminar title: The UK’s Afghanistan Crossroads: where do we go from here? Speaker’s bio: Dr…
Shivan Fazil – Iraq’s ethnoreligious minorities: Exclusion from power-sharing grand bargains
Shivan Fazil is a senior researcher at the Institute of Regional and International Studies (IRIS) at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani’s (AUIS). Prior to joining IRIS, he was a…
‘Erasures in Iraq’ Online Workshop Round-Up
This blogpost was written by Sarah Edgcumbe, a PhD Candidate within the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews affiliated with MECACS and the Centre for Minorities…
Erasures in Iraq Workshop – Kakaism Between its Mesopotamian Origins and Islamization: An Existential Conflict
This blogpost is related to the ‘Erasure in Iraq’ online workshop hosted by MECACS and the Centre for Minorities Research on 15th April, 20024. It was written by Muhtadi Al-Abyadh ([email protected]),…