Dr Lina Khatib, an international expert on policy, politics, security, and culture in relation to the Middle East, has been appointed as the new MBI Al Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies and Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute.
On December 12th, 2022, Professor Nancy Um, Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Creation at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, presented Mocha in the 17th and 18th Centuries – Yemen’s Age of Coffee
William Facey gave a talk for the MBI Al Jaber Foundation and The IASA on his most recent book about Charles Huber, making the case for Huber to be considered France’s greatest Arabian explorer.
Matthew Teller, in his talk about his new book, the Nine Quarters of Jerusalem, A New Biography of the Old City, traced the origins and development of Jerusalem’s cartography.
The MBI Al Jaber Foundation co-hosted its first online lecture of 2022 with the International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA) and the British-Yemeni Society (B-YS).
‘Juifs d’Orient. Une histoire plurimillenaire’ is the final part of a trilogy of exhibitions dedicated to each of the three monotheistic religions shown at the at the Institut du Monde Arabe
The MBI Al Jaber Foundation has announced a significant donation towards the construction of a state-of-the-art research facility at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) that will have a focus on epidemiology and infectious diseases.
Dr Noura Mansouri, one of the MBI Al Jaber Foundation Alumni, was invited to take part in the 4th Gulf Intelligence International Petroleum Week, which took place in London from 25th to 27th February, 2020. In particular, she participated in the Middle East Energy Summit.
The MBI Al Jaber Foundation was recently invited to co-host a lecture with its partner institution, the International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA). The lecture, ‘Birds of the Arabian Peninsula’, was presented by Rob Sheldon
The MBI Al Jaber Foundation was recently invited by the British-Yemeni Society (B-YS) and the International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA) to co-host the UK book launch of ‘Arabs: A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires’
