Laurent Mignon

Middle East Centre

Title	Description	People	Date
Safe Corridor	This seminar discusses the inaugural Bait AlGhasham DarArab International Translation Prize winner, ‘Safe Corridor’; a bold, unforgettable novel of war, imagination, and survival.	Jan Dost, Marilyn Booth, Ali Al Mujaini, Nasser Al Badri, Laurent Mignon	11 November, 2025
Memorial in honour of Derek Hopwood OBE and Celia Kerslake	The Director and Fellows of the Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College convened a memorial in honour of Derek Hopwood OBE, Emeritus Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies (1933-2020) and Celia Kerslake, Emeritus Fellow in Turkish (1946-2023).	Eugene Rogan, Roger Goodman, Gina Rowland, Rosie MacGregor, Michael Willis, Dimitris Antoniou, Linda Schilcher, Laurent Mignon, Ahmed al-Shahi	22 August, 2023
Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East	MEC Friday Webinar. This is a recording of a live webinar held on 15th October 2021 for the first episode of the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East.	Michael J. Willis, Walter Armbrust, Laurent Mignon, Usaama al-Azami	4 November, 2021
The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships	Ece Temelkuran, author of How to Lose a Country: the Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship (2019) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar series. Chaired by Dr Laurent Mignon (St Antony's College, Oxford).	Ece Temelkuran, Laurent Mignon	9 December, 2020