Sponsored by the University’s Refugee Entrepreneurial Fund Emma Gray and Zoe Caimi are members of the Student Board for the Refugee Entrepreneurial Fund Project Overview and Grassroots Importance The Refugee…
Leila Alikarami, LLB, LLM, PhD. Leila Alikarami is a lawyer, human rights advocate, and an academic. At the national level she is a well recognized human right lawyer and women’s rights expert. Internationally, she…
Dr. Reeves is a senior lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and Editor of Central Asian Survey. The seminar focused on her field work in the Southwest…
Follow the link below to listen to Episode 5 of our radio show MECACS Meets. This week features two special guests- MLitt Students Michael Land and Tereza Dvorakova. Our interns…
MECACS Research Associate Tina Zintl recently published a column on difficulties with future reconstruction in Syria due to changes in the original Syrian social contract after the eruption of the…
Elodie Phillips is a MECACS intern and a final year undergraduate student studying International Relations and Russian at the University of St Andrews. Source: Radio Free Europe/Serhli Nuzhnenko On March 16th, MECACS…
Follow the link below to listen to Episode 4 of our radio show MECACS Meets, which features Dr Leyla Sayfutdinova. Our interns interviewed Dr Sayfutdinova about her involvement in the…
Dr Nour Halabi is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on borders, migration and immigration policy and global social movement theory. Her work on the long-standing…
Dr Filippo Costa Buranelli is a lecturer at the University of St Andrews. His research agenda is strongly interdisciplinary, combining expertise on IR theory, regionalism (with a focus on Central Asia), global…
In honour of the tenth anniversary of the Arab Uprisings, the MECACS Faculty has put together a list of publications and filmography to keep the conversation going. We hope they will spark…