Recent news
New Faculty Member – Dr Wassim Naboulsi
MECACS is proud to announce that we’re starting off 2024 by welcoming a new faculty member! Dr Wassim Naboulsi joined us at the start of this semester. You can learn more about…
MECACS Reads Issue #3
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, we would…
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 homelessness and…
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 article explores generational differences using…
MECACS Reads Issue #1
In Memoriam
It is with great sadness that we join in announcing the death of Robin Ord-Smith MVO, who in a distinguished and lengthy diplomatic career served as British Ambassador to Tajikistan and to…