MECACS Art Exhibition 29th May-8th June
MECACS is organising an art exhibition ‘Reflections on Exile and Displacement from the Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus’, which will explore issues ranging from family and human rights to…
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MECACS Welcomes Visiting Research Fellow Dr. Nasser Tolba
Dr Nasser Tolba is a Visiting Researcher with MECACS who began his fellowship on the 5th January 2022. MECACS intern Vittoria Gattini conducted an introductory interview with him. 1. Firstly,…
MECACS Reads Issue #2
Collated by MECACS Intern Vittoria Gattini MECACS reads is a monthly blog post and newsletter devoted to literature on the Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia regions. Through this initiative,…
Silence is golden? Silences as strategic narratives in Central Asian states’ response to the Ukrainian crisis – A Seminar with Dr. Timur Dadabaev
Dr. Timur Dadabaev is a Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University…
Special issue on EU-Central Asian interactions, Central Asia Survey, Vol. 41, No, 4, December 2022
The new special issue ‘EU-Central Asian Interactions: Perceptions, Interests and Practices’, co-edited by the former director of MECACS Rick Fawn, together with Karolina Kluczewska and Oleg Korneev, has just been…
MECACS Director Dr Fiona McCallum Guiney has published two articles from her EU-funded project Defining and Identifying Middle Eastern Christian Communities in Europe
The first article ‘Generational perspectives on homeland-oriented diasporic humanitarianism: Coptic, Assyrian and Iraqi Christian charities in the UK.’ Is available open access in International Migration Review. The…
MECACS Reads Issue #1
MECACS reads is a monthly blog post and newsletter devoted to literature on the Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia regions. Through this initiative, we would like to offer stimulating suggested reading that is not…
MECACS teaching on Contemporary Issues in International Relations Summer School
MECACS is participating in the first IR Summer School on Contemporary Issues in International Relations. MECACS will start the three week course providing insight into how regions are affected by…
Kazakhstan: Living With and Giving Up the Bomb – a seminar with Dr Togzhan Kassenova
Dr Togzhan Kassenova is an author who holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Leeds in addition to serving on the UN secretary general’s Advisory Board on Disarmament…
Militarism in Russia and its Implications for the Post-Soviet Space – a seminar with Dr Kasia Kaczmarska
Dr Kasia Kaczmarska is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, her main research interests are Sociology of knowledge, International theory, Academic freedom, Research…