Panel Discussion: “War and Civilizationist Horizons”
Badaro Talks: “Insurgensea: Palestine’s nomadic solidarities”
How does the insurgency in Palestine (de)territorialize the sea beyond the land? How do solidarity ships carry the ongoing insurgency beyond fortified […]
Badaro Talks: “Taming the Russian Bear. Lessons from the Finnish Foreign Policy.”
In her talk HE Ambassador Anne Meskanen will introduce Finland as a country multiple times elected as “the happiest country […]

Call for Papers, Panels and Roundtables: Decolonizing Middle Eastern Studies – Critical Perspectives and Emerging Debates
The Seventh Finnish Colloquium of Middle East and North African Studies 10 – 11, June 2024 – Tampere, Finland (with a […]
Badaro Talks, public lecture 23.10. “What Do Psychologists in Finland Discuss About?”
The Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME) organizes the next Badaro Talks lecture Monday 23rd of October at 18.00. Nina Lyytinen […]
A Conversation and a Book Launch with Rima Majed, Jeffrey G. Karan and other contributors, September 21, 2023, at 18:00
Abstract: In October 2019, hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Lebanon to protest austerity measures in what became […]
Badaro Talks, public lecture 24.8. “Ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp – studying Palestinian refugees’ lifeworld in Southern Lebanon”
The Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME) is launching a public lecture series under the title Badaro Talks. Our first […]

Call for Papers is now open for the upcoming workshop in Beirut “The Changing and Enduring Face of the Ancient Near East: The Impact of Migration and Imperialism through the Ages”
”The Changing and Enduring Face of the Ancient Near East: The Impact of Migration and Imperialism through the Ages” workshop on […]

Arabic language cafe 6.4.-25.5.
Tuesdays 17:00-18:30 The Finnish Institute in the Middle East organises an online language cafe for Arabic students. The language cafe, […]
Webinar: Hilma Granqvist – A Pioneer in Palestine: Anthropological Fieldwork in the 1920s
The Finnish anthropologist Hilma Granqvist did groundbreaking work on the daily life of the villagers of Artas. A large part […]

Introduction to Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Case Studies from the Middle East
19.03.-14.05.2021, Fridays at 10:00-12:00 (Helsinki time, UTC+2) Registration period for the course is open until 5.3.2021 at 16:005 ECTS (for possible equivalency with Finnish universities, see […]
Dis_Order Narratives & the Middle East – Book Launch Webinar
Launch Webinar for the book Political Narratives in the Middle East and North Africa Date: Friday, 24 April, 10.00–11.30 Political Narratives in […]