Events

The Alwaleed Centre hosts regular public events, seminars and workshops featuring leading experts from across the world. We try to ensure that all our events are free of charge and accessible to all.

Upcoming events

Event date
Jan 19 2026 -

International Exhibition: 'Interreligious Encounters & Creative Practice'

Come see the International Exhibition, 'Interreligious Encounters & Creative Practice', which is part of the Interreligious Encounters and Creative Practice event.

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Feb 05 2026 -

Gaza: The Dream and the Nightmare

Join us on 5 February, when Dr Julie M. Norman (UCL) discusses her new book, ‘Gaza: The Dream and the Nightmare’, co-authored with Maia Carter Hallward. It tells the story of Gaza from its early foundations, across decades of occupation, to the devastation of the ongoing war.

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Feb 12 2026 -

Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam

Join us when Dr Ken Chitwood, (Universität Bayreuth and the University of Southern California), discusses his book 'Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam' (University of Texas Press 2025).

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Feb 16 2026 -

Fasting in Christianity and Islam

2026 sees the world's two largest religious communities, the Christian and the Muslim, begin their periods of fasting, respectively Lent and Ramadan, on the same date, Wednesday 18th February. We mark this coincidence with talks from Professor Hugh Goddard and Shaykh Amin Buxton.

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Mar 03 2026 -

Book Launch: Islamophobia and Translations of Securitization in the UK, France, and Italy

Join us when Dr Ugo Gaudino (the University of Sussex) presents and discusses his new book 'Islamophobia and Translations of Securitization in the UK, France, and Italy'.

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