{"id":949,"date":"2016-01-26T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T10:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=949"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:09:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:09:35","slug":"mst-tutor-jenny-lewis-speaks-at-opening-of-anglo-iraqi-studies-centre-aisc-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"MSt tutor Jenny Lewis speaks at opening of Anglo-Iraqi Studies Centre (AISC) in London"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With Ambassador Dr. Salah Al-Timimi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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With AISC manager, Nadeem Al-Abdalla<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On 23rd January, MSt tutor Jenny Lewis was a guest speaker at the the opening of the new Anglo-Iraqi Studies Centre (AISC) in London.\u00a0 The AISC collection of over 2,000 books in English about Iraqi history and culture, includes several rare books and some by Freya Stark and Gertrude Bell.<\/p>\n

Jenny will also be giving a talk and seminar at the centre on 19 March about her Mesopotamian connections and researches.<\/p>\n

More on the event on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 23rd January, MSt tutor Jenny Lewis was a guest speaker at the the opening of the new Anglo-Iraqi Studies Centre (AISC) in London.\u00a0 The AISC collection of over 2,000 books in English about Iraqi history and culture, includes several rare books and some by Freya Stark and Gertrude Bell. Jenny will also be giving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-tutor_news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-fj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1234,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1234","url_meta":{"origin":949,"position":0},"title":"MSt tutor Jenny Lewis with poet Adnan al-Sayegh, artist Frances Kiernan, exhibition at Iraqi Embassy, London","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"May 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Exhibition and readings of work by MST tutor Jenny Lewis at Iraqi Embassy cultural event MSt tutor Jenny Lewis joined the distinguished Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh and the British artist Frances Kiernan to present an exhibition of prints and extracts from Gilgamesh Retold, Jenny\u2019s re-imagining of the Epic of Gilgamesh,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "MSt News"","block_context":{"text":"MSt News","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jenny-lewis-and-Adnan-al-Sayegh-reading-at-Embassy-event-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1605,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1605","url_meta":{"origin":949,"position":1},"title":"MSt tutor Jenny Lewis at the Stanford University Centre, Oxford, 20th Nov 2018","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"November 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"MSt tutor Jenny Lewis will be at the Stanford University Centre in Oxford on the 20th of November 2018, 5 - 7 pm. 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