The Mapping Connections Project is pleased to announce the recent publication of an article by Dr. Oliver Hayakawa in the journal Mediterranean Politics. Oliver is an ECR on the project and a Lecturer in International Relations on the joint degree programme 'International Governance and Public Policy' delivered in partnership between the University of Keele, UK, and Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), China.

Mapping Connections Early Career Researcher Jie Wang contributed an essay titled “A Chinese Conversation Nādi in Cairo: The Grassroots Popularity of Mandarin Chinese in the Middle East” to the Focus section of Global China Pulse

The Mapping Connections project recently concluded an Institute on Mapping Arab Region-China Connections’ convened between 27th – 30th May as part of the Inter-Asia Partnership’s (IAP) ‘Inter-Asia Week’.

On 26 October 2023, Professor Adam Hanieh delivered an inaugural lecture to a newly formed student association at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China – the Tsinghua University Student Association of China-MENA Friendship (THU-MENA).

Early career researchers from the Mapping Connections project presented their work at a panel convened as part of the Sixth Conference of the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS) held in Beirut, Lebanon, 25 to 28 May 2023. ACSS is a partner of the Mapping Connections project, and their biannual conference brought together close to 400 researchers from the Arab region and the world, as well as the ACSS Board of Trustees, representatives of donor organizations, university presidents, deans, and faculty members in prominent universities around the region.

Beirut workshop hosted by the University of Exeter and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS)