CENTRE for MEDITERRANEAN, MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES

Review of the most important 2012 events in the Middle East.

The audio recording of the lecture "Israel's search for friends in the region: then and now" by the distinguished Israeli political analyst and writer Mr. Yossi Alpher (Athens, April 10, 2013)

Review of the most important 2013 events in the Middle East.

The audio recording of the CEMMIS' interview with the Ambassador of Palestine in Athens, Marwan Emile Toubassi (Athens, May 27, 2015)

The transcript of the interview.

The audio recording of the Public talk by the Co-President of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), Mr. Salih Muslim on "The Kurdish issue and the War in Syria" (Athens, February 16, 2016)(Kurdish-Greek)

The transcript of the speech. (Greek)

The audio recording of the interview with Heba Khalil* (April 30, 2016)(duration 45 minutes)

The transcript of the interview.

*Heba Khalil has been working for the Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights in Cairo (ECESR), where she was deputy director until mid 2015 while now she is a researcher at the same centre. She is currently a PhD candidate at the department of sociology at the University of Illinois focusing on labour and social movements in Egypt and their historical and social origins. Her fields of interest also include rural and farmers' social mobilization in the Egyptian periphery. Her publications include Above the State: Multinational Corporations in Egypt, Cairo, ECESR. 2015, with Norhan Mokhtar, and Hatem Zayed and participation in the edited volume From the Local to the Global: Key Issues in Development Studies, published by Pluto Press in 2015.