Friday 11 March @6.30pm:
Melbourne: seminar hosted by the Iraqi Australian University Graduates Forum and Deakin University
Sponsor: Council for Australian-Arab Relations, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT
Abstract: Amongst Western academics and politicians and media, religious and ethnic difference in the Middle East are often thought of as fixed, essential characteristics which determine peoples’ behaviour, rendering intractable differences between different groups, and thus making states and the region as a whole unstable. This talk uses quantitative and survey data from recent studies to challenge the myth that ethnic and religious identities are fixed and mutually exclusive, and shows the continuities in people's priorities both across religion and ethnicity, within Iraq and the Middle East generally, and beyond the region itself. These continuities within and beyond Iraq and the Middle East - above and beyond the more often-remarked differences - are the grounds upon which a different politics could be built.
Monday 14 March:
- Lecture at University of Sydney
- interview with SBS Italian Service: “L'Egitto cinque anni dopo” (Egypt Five Years On) http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/content/legitto-cinque-anni-dopo?language=it