Graduations for 2016
CAIS students graduating this semester include: Brenton Clark, who was in Canberra to receive his award for his doctoral thesis. His thesis focused on Iran’s political and economic relations with…
Cais Book launched by Minister for Foreign Affairs
The Arab World and Iran: A turbulent region in transition, edited by Amin Saikal, was launched by the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, The Hon. Julie Bishop MP, on 12 December 2016. In…
Elementary Arabic - Short Course
Interested in Arabic Language but not taking a degree program? Why not try our summer course in Elementary Arabic? This Elementary Arabic summer course aims at developing students’ abilities to…
Engaging with an assertive Gulf
Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, a Fellow at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, led a roundtable discussion at CAIS on 1 November. Dr Coates Ulrichsen's research examines the…
Book launch - 'Power Failure: The political odyssey of a Pakistani woman'
Syeda Abida Hussain's book, Power Failure: The Political Odyssey of a Pakistani Woman, was launched at CAIS on 20 October 2016. The launch was jointly hosted by the ANU Coral Bell School and the ANU…
Turkey and China: a major theme at an international forum
CAIS Lecturer, Dr Murat Yurtbilir and research scholar, Victoria Xiaoli Guo participated in an international conference in which one of the central themes was Turkey's foreign policy in…
Saudi Clerics and Shī‘a Islam by Raihan Ismail
Raihan Ismail is an Associate Lecturer at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies. She works on sectarian politics in the Middle East and the dynamics within and between Islamic institutions. …