MESACC

The Middle Eastern Studies and Cooperation Center

Eskişehir Osmangazi University

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NEWS AND EVENTS

North African-Turkish Congress for Humanities and Social Sciences
NATCHASS-2012
“Social Transformations and Youth”
Venue and Dates: Istanbul, 1-3 Kasım 2012,
Deadline to send abstracts: July 1, 2012
Congress Web Site: Click Here
Download the form to send abstracts: Click Here

We have started organizing various activities in the MESACC including workshops, seminars, courses and seminars that address academics and the general public.

You can also follow the Center's future activities in the MESACC Calendar .

22 December 2011

Workshop: The North Africa's Domestic Challanges and Relations with Turkey

The MESACC and the Municipality of Odunpazari hosted a public workshop on The North Africa's Domestic Challenges and Relations with Turkey" in the University's Congress Center on December 22, 2012.

Prominent Scholars and experts from the Region and Turkey discussed the nature of domestic issues in the North Africa (al-Maghariba) and the future of the relations between Turkey and the North African countries (namely, Libya, Tunis, and Algeria and Morocco). H.E. Muhammed Fatah el-Naciri, head of the Arab League mission in Ankara, the governer of Eskişehir and the university president, Prof. Dr. Hasan Gönen, attended the workshop along with a strong interest from the media and students.

H.E. Muhammed Fatah el-Naciri (head of the Arab League mission in Ankara) delivering his keynote speech.

During a session on the Future of Turkish-North African Relations. From Rigt: Mr. B. Sakallı, Prof. M. Şişman, Dr. F. Bendridi, Dr. A. Uysal, Dr. A. Öztürk

A group picture of the workshop participants

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16 December 2011

The Arab Spring and the Global Chances

Prof. Juan Cole (middle) receiving memory plate from the dean
Prof. Omar Torlak (left) and Dr. Ahmet Uysal (right).

The MESACC help its first activity with a lecture by Prof. Juan R.I. Cole, Head of

Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies,

University of Michigan on Dec. 16, 2011. The event is jointly organized by the Municipality of Odunpazarı, Eskişehir. As prominent historian of the Middle East, he provided a historical background for today's changes in the Arab world as well as relating these events with the current global context.

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PAST EVENTS:

Foreign Minister Prof. Ahmet DAVUTOĞLU gave a lecture at Osmangazi University (Mayıs 15, 2011):

In cooperation with the Eskişehir Association of Enterpreneurial Industrialists and Businessmen and (EGSİAD), our International Relations Department hosted Mr. Davutoglu in our university to give a public lecture titled “From Proactive Foreign Policy to Proactive Foreign Trade”. Prof. Davutogly also congratulated our newly established Center (MESACC) DETAILS OF THE EVENT (in Turkish) >>

Dr. Uysal’s Report on Turkey’s Image in Egypt (April 2011):

The Center director, Ahmet Uysal, published his report on Turkey’s Image in the Middle East: The Case of Egypt (Ful-text in Turkish with an Executive Summary in English – PDF).

Call for Papers: The Arab-Turkish Congress of Social Sciences.
April 30, 2011.

Arab-Turkish Congress of Social Sciences (ATCOSS): December 10-12, 2010

Less than a month of the Start of the Arab Spring, our university, Cairo University and Strategic Thinking Institute organized the first Arab-Turkish Congress of Social Sciences (ATCOSS) in Ankara. Minister of Interior Prof. Dr. Beşir Atalay was the keynote speaker in the Congress that hosted more than 150 speakers from the Middle East and around the world. The director of the MESACC, Dr. Uysal, is its general coordinator. For more information about the ATCOSS click here >>

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