Dr. Dimitris Bouris and Dr. Dimitris Papadimitriou published a special issue: “The EU and Contested Statehood in its Near Abroad: Europeanisation, Actorness and State-building” in Geopolitics, Vol. 25, issue 2.
On September 23rd, Prof. Thomas Demmelhüber have a lecture on EU-Middle East Relations at the Ibrahim Abu Lughod Instiute of International Studies of Birzeit University. More information here
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gökay Özerim was awarded Jean Monnet Chair on migration in EU-Turkey Relations by the European Commission. More information and photos here
On November 14th, Nathalie Tocci, Director of the IAI and Special Advisor to EU HRVP Federica Mogherini held a webinar on the topic of EU global strategy and EU-Middle East relations. The webinar is available here, on the EUMENIA YouTube channel.
On October 1rst, Amb. Amal Jadou – the Assistant Minister on European Affairs and the Head of the European Affairs department at the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Expatriates – and Dr. Dimitris Bouris held a lecture on “The future of Palestine. Wither the two-state solution?” at SPUI25 in Amsterdam.
On October 15th, the American University of Beirut and Dr. Karim Makdisi hosted a presentation by Dr. Dimitris Bouris on the EU’s role in Israel and Palestine: unintended consequences and ambiguities. This was followed by an engaging discussion with students. You can find more information …
Prof. Aylin Güney from Yaşar University gave a lecture entitled “Turkey at Dire Straits: An Analysis of the Turkish Foreign Policy towards the EU and the Middle East since 2005” in the framework of the IAIonline Euro-Mediterranean Analyst course.
EUMENIA aims to bring scholars into the different classrooms of European and Middle Eastern universities, thus fostering exchanges between academics and students.
The latest teaching visit organized in the framework of EUMENIA, saw Prof. Lourdes Habash, Associate Professor at Birzeit University, giving a lecture on the future scenarios for Palestine and Western perspectives at Yaşar University, İzmir.
Dr. Michelle Pace was a panel speaker at the international conference organised by the Committee of the Regions (CoR) on Natural Resources (NAT) on 28/03-29/03/2019 in Gozo, Malta. More information here
