 Good to have you everybody, my name is Ali and I am the convener of the course, the module for Iran History, Culture and Politics as part of our programme. So we will start discussing this together, and good afternoon Ali Reza as well, alright, so let me see, okay, okay everyone, let me share with you the slides that I have, and then we can go through these together. Okay everybody, I believe, I believe you can see it, can you see the slides? Yep, excellent, thank you. So let's go through these together. So today I will be discussing with you, and I introduced two very, very interesting unique programmes that we have, and that is Near and Middle Eastern Studies and Iranian Studies. First of all, I want to welcome you to our department and our school, School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics, or School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, I should say. We are a school within Sawa that we actually provide unique and specific degrees and courses for you. So Near and Middle Eastern Studies and Iranian Studies. So the theme of discussion today is what is Middle East, what is Iran? Middle East and Iran's role in it together. So the first thing that we need to pay attention to is that, why is it distinctive? Why is it distinctive about, why is distinctive about studying of Near and Middle Eastern Studies and Iranian Studies at this specific school? What is special about this when I say that? So first of all, the reason is we are looking into the Middle East and Iran in it from global perspective, and we are looking into this region to the Middle East and Iran through non-Western lenses, Middle Eastern and global South. What do I mean? I mean that unlike or maybe other universities do that, but we are looking from different angles. We are looking at the Middle East and we are looking into Middle East from the global perspective from how the world sees the Middle East. And then we look into Middle East and Iran through non-Western lenses specifically. And then we look into how actually the region is considered and discussed and evaluated by the Middle East and global South. That makes our approach quite special because we're not looking into it from only global perspective, but we are actually going in the Middle East and see how the region is actually discussed within the Middle East and within the global South. When I say global South, like far East Asia, Asia, Latin America, Africa and so on. For these two unique programs that I mentioned to you, and I explained to you why is unique and why it says unique, and how we are actually going to do so is we are providing a broader spectrum of studying Middle East and Iran in the region. We have regional expertise, but I tell you now that what is the difference between our school and for these programs with many other institutions. First of all, we are looking and we bring you into this debate and we make you get get involved first with the international relations of the Middle East. We're looking to international relations of the Middle East in a way to tell you, and you will be the one to lead as well, about the regional perception of the globe. This is very important. We are not just only talking about international relations of Iraq, international relations of Turkey or Iraq or Syria. We are looking into how the region perceives the world in order to understand the political and foreign policy behavior. We need to understand how actually in the Middle East, the Middle East and foreign policy makers perceive the world, and this is what we are actually going to discuss. We are not limited to international relations of the Middle East. We are actually make you get involved with the discussions and debates and academic research on the internal and regional politics. When I say internal politics means the legislations means the internal politics, the elections, the political parties, the revolutions, the grassroots movements, and also regional politics. We're looking to relations between the Middle East and the States, not only between the world and the Middle East, but also within Middle East and Middle East. What we do also here that makes our programs unique is that we study the contemporary history and more importantly cultural elements of the Middle East. And one part of it is linguistic studies and unique language courses. Literally, unlike any other programs, these two programs not only give you a very broad spectrum in terms of international politics and internal politics and sociological elements, but actually makes you engaged with this topic while you are actually trained in terms of languages. The language of the region literally is all modules are complementing each other. What is the backbone of these two programs, which I will explain, I'll give you an example of one of the modules that we do, how actually we go into it. We have a deep multi-dimensional, let's say, engagement with the political realities, socio-economy and cultural specifications, linguistic and social elements of the Middle East. And for example, in this case, Iran literally is about foreign policy of the Middle East and Iran, international politics of the Middle East and Iran, internal regional politics, economy of the countries, and also cultural elements, which is very important to have this with intensive language courses that we are actually providing. And that makes you to be, and the goal of our programs, these two programs in our School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, is to make you to be experts by the time you are graduated from these programs. We are looking into mainstream approach as well as critical approach. We are not only, we are making sure that you're updated with the mainstream approach, but at the same time critical approach to discuss that. One thing else that actually makes us quite fit for purpose, and I would say even very welcoming and very, let's say interesting is the diverse background of our academics and our students. I will introduce a few of the colleagues here, but in our classes we have students from all around the world who are getting engaged with these two topics because it's not, as I said, at the end of the day, it's not about politics. Here, we offer you cultural studies, linguistic studies, sociological studies and all in one package. So even if you look at the name of our department, Near and Middle East Sections School of Languages and Cultures and Linguistics, that makes it a distinct and inspirational department. I say this to you because I did work in other universities and other departments as well, but this department is absolutely inspirational because it provides an umbrella of all these topics and you have absolute freedom to choose which elements. Here, I would like to also briefly discuss about these two programs and then I give you an example of it. One is MA Middle Eastern Studies and then we talk about MA Iranian Studies. You can combine them with intensive language courses. The structure is very simple and you can have it in our website. You can take 180 credits and the students can take 60 credits from the dissertation, which is a part of it, and 120 credits from taught modules. We have core modules and then optional modules. So you have a dissertation, which is 60, and then you have a core module and then you have optional modules. The core modules for instance for this program is remapping area studies in Asia, Africa and the Middle East and also Middle East in 10 weeks. You can see the name of the program is a remapping area studies, which is actually looking into not only political elements, but remapping all the elements that I told you, cultural, sociological, economical, artistic, politics, international relations and all in one package. The wealth of these programs is the optional modules that we have. You have various choices for optional modules from various departments. So you are part of our department that we would love to welcome you. Also, you have absolute autonomy to choose optional modules from other departments. In a way, in our department in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, we try to tailor for each student a specific, let's say, a jacket that actually suits you what actually you really like to have. So you can choose from languages, from Department of Religion, Art and Archaeology, Politics, History, Development, Law and so on. So this is our exciting program on MA, Legal Studies and similarly with MA Iranian Studies. MA Iranian Studies is a unique program which rarely you can find in other universities, a few universities in the world have it. For example, a few top ranking universities, United States and a few in the United Kingdom and MA Iranian Studies. The goal is to train specialists and experts on Iran and not only Iran. As I said, in complimenting the Middle Eastern studies actually, it will be experts on Iran and the Middle East together. So students can combine this program with intensive Persian language, for instance. The modules, the structure is the same as other, our sister program MA, near and Middle Eastern Studies, 180 credits, 60 credits from the dissertation and 120 credits from the taught modules. The dissertation in Iranian Studies, you are absolute freedom. As I said, we are tailoring this. Some students are interested in the international politics. Some students are interested in let's say cultural elements, history, sociology, economy, development, gender politics and anything that actually you find it more appealing to yourself or you want to be a specialist in that specific element. So that's you have the absolute freedom and support from us. Core modules, for instance, is Iran, history, culture and politics, 30 credits. The name is on it, is an umbrella module. We're looking at everything and I will give you a quite brief presentation on this in a minute. There are the core modules as well, the Middle Eastern 10 weeks, but also students can select remaining credits from the list that is on the website for our optional modules, including languages, language courses, for example, for instance, Persian language, classical Persian poetry, the Zoroastrianism, historical and contemporary perspective, which is quite unique. Modules from various departments such as anthropology, economics, art and archaeology and politics, for instance, international politics of the Middle East. You can take that course and international and AI, which is artificial intelligence, is a very new module has been introduced, human rights and Islamic law, gender, a law and society in the Middle East and North Africa and even other languages such as Arabic and Turkish. So in other words, it is not only one sided politics, but it is a kind of umbrella that allows you to be an expert and a specialist in this specific field. I am pleased to say, as I mentioned, we have prominent colleagues and academics that support us in your journey. And I'm only able to introduce very few because of the time issue, but we have fantastic colleagues in our department of SLCL. For instance, Dr. Yorgos Nedes, the convener of the Middle Eastern studies and also certificate in Turkish, he's a writer, also Neoplatonism and his book. I'm looking forward to read that and also Narges Farzad. She is a celebrity in terms of teaching Persian language and I witnessed students come out of her courses, actually speak Farsi in a quite admirable way. We also, this is me anyway, no need to introduce myself Ali. And my speciality has been on Iran and Palestine and Iran and the Arab world, which will be part of the course that you will receive. We will talk about the Arab world, the whole Middle East and Iran and how these two are engaged in cultural, political and sociological elements. We are supported by our head of department Dr. Nana Sato-Rosberg, a fantastic writer. And also the beauty of this school is that we are actually engaged and supported by other prominent and celebrity academics such as Professor Ashin Adid Mukaddam with convening the Amerian studies and from the Department of Politics. So we are actually having access, direct access to the other department and working together in this regard and so on. So allow me now to give you a brief presentation on, for instance, when I was talking about our programs, I said in MA Iranian studies and MA near and Middle Eastern studies, we are looking at all the elements, not only politics, we are looking into history, culture, economy, sociology and politics and all together. What does it mean? How is it even possible? So I'll give you a kind of a presentation or a very brief discussion about one of the modules, core modules that we have. And you can see the other core modules that we have and other modules that we offer are quite similar and is a kind of an umbrella study to be micro and macro elements of that country. So in the module Iran, History, Culture and Politics, we take you to a journey. We talk about the culture and identity and history of Iran and the Middle East, Iran in the Middle East. So we go through that kind of an empire studies to see the roots of Persians and Mesopotamia and Babylon and all these things we will discuss. We see this, the culture and identity. Then we take you to other elements of the cultural studies to the Islamic Renaissance. We take you to history and culture to that kind of a journey. We talk about the post Islamic identity, Islamic Renaissance, Iranian poets, philosophers, Rumi, Saadi, Avesina, Khayyam, Hafiz and literally you will be engaged with the core element of the Islamic Renaissance culture and literature in Iran specifically and in the Middle East as a whole picture. Then we will go ahead to develop this and we talk about Persian literature and poetry and also the identity. As I mentioned in the concept of Middle East or are connected. So we will discuss that. We will the ceilings from non-Western lenses and also from Western lenses. So you have this opportunity to see from both sides. Then we go to talk about state formation in the Middle East. For instance in the concept of Iranian studies we look how Iranian contemporary borders were shaped. We will do this similar thing in the near and Middle Eastern studies. How after the collapse of Ottoman empire the creation of new Middle Eastern states shaped today's region and in the concept of Iran also we take you to that journey as well. This state formation in the Middle East when we talk about this in a very comprehensive way and we look into also Persian wars and transforming the contemporary Iran and the same time we have similar journey in the Middle Eastern studies with the other countries in the region. Then we take you to something very interesting. Take you to a very interesting journey. Iran's constitutional revolution and tobacco movement 19th century and we talk about their impacts on today's Iran and the whole Middle East. So that's how I say these courses are unique because you're not looking specifically at Iran. You look at the whole Middle Eastern region together. So there are some events and developments in the region on the Middle East that actually affected the whole region and we still we can see the impacts today but they're quite not very obvious unless we delve into it and understand this. So we take you to that journey the 19th century journey. Then we go in the concept of this module on talking about Iran's history, culture and politics. We take you to the journey of modern Iran and in its place in the Middle East, the era of modernization, industrialization and the Pala v. Zira. A very similar thing happened in Turkey during, for example, Mustafa Kamalatov. Very similar things happen in other Middle Eastern countries but when we take you to that journey to study about the concept, the era of industrialization and modernization in Iran specifically and how actually affected the invention of the cultural identity in Iran. We take you to another stage which is the nationalization movement in Iran during the Cold War 1951-1953 and we look into the socio-political impacts on today's Iran as we speak and the Middle East because after that the nationalization of Iran, a nationalization of oil and energy in Iran, later on a few years later you have the nationalization of Suez Canal in Egypt. So we go through this we actually academically, analytically together studied this and we discover very interesting points that actually we can't hear them in elsewhere. So and then other event in Iran and the Middle East that actually shaped today's countries and shaped today's region is the 1979 Revolution in Iran and its impact on Iran and the Middle East as a whole. We will talk about the concept of Islam and the role of Islam and religion in politics which was practiced for the first time in the modern world in the 20th century and also we talk about Iran-Iraq war, the longest war in the 20th century, conventional war, even longer than the Second World War. We will talk about change of alliances in the Middle East, how many times that this kind of a power game changed the end of the Cold War and the role of religion in their region and the clash of hegemonies in the Middle East. The role of religion as we speak today is actually absolutely prominent and we will discuss that we are not only looking into the revolution but we're looking to how religion in this concept Iran, in fact Islam in Iran in fact changed the whole concept of the role of religion in politics and how politics is affected by religion as we speak so we delve into this. Then we go one step further, we look into the role of culture, religion and identity in today's Iran. As you can see from the photos from Zoroastrianism to Islam we talk about the cultural and social ties with the wider region in means Middle East. What does it mean religion and culture in Iran for the Middle East and how actually makes these, makes them closer? What actually creates a very strong ties between Iran and its neighborhood and vice versa through religion, through culture, through architecture, through the history of the Islamic Renaissance. So we look into this. Then we take you to the modern world as well. So when we understand because we need to understand the culture, the history, sociology, religion, identity and when we go through all these things and then developments, shaping up state borders and revolutions and movements and state versus nations then we get into international politics. And here in this course Iran history actually we divide this in a very comprehensive way. We don't overwhelm you with one specific element. We actually divide this to different weeks. So each week complements the other week and actually it allows you to slowly, slowly have a wider picture rather than giving you one element. So each week actually is a kind of a paragraph, an essay opens the window for you in a kind of a very interesting journey. So that week, one of the weeks we talk about Iran's relations with global powers. Iran with the United States, Iran with China, Iran with Russia as we speak is quite a hot potato topic. So one specific week is actually designed to discuss about Iran's relations with the superpowers and at the same time how that affects the whole Middle East as well. Then we go one step further and delve into it. Having discussed about Iran's relations with Russia with China and United States and Europe and the UK, then we get in in words and we look into Iran's role in the Middle East and relations between the Middle East and the States and Iran and vice versa. Literally we talk about the relations with Iraq, with Palestine, with Lebanon, with Turkey, with Saudi Arabia, with Syria, with Gulf Cooperation Council, United Arab Emirates and Qatar specifically and actually we go one step further and we look into also Azerbaijan and Armenia as well and Central Asia. So literally we link wider region and we're looking to relations between them. What is it about when we hear about the Cold War in the Middle East? What is it about the proxies? What is it about relations and all these elements together? So this is a very important element because if I go back to this, when we understand the relations of the global powers with the Middle East and specifically with Iran, then we can go to understand the engagement between the states in the Middle East which comes from friendship, sympathy and empathy to proxy conflicts, rivalry and also competition. We discuss all together when we discuss about for instance Iran and Palestine and Iraq, all the way to Israel, Saudi Arabia, all the way to Turkey and Azerbaijan. Then as I mentioned Iran history, culture and politics, we are not only caged with politics, international relations or history or culture, we also have two specific weeks of designated to economy of Iran and its connection with the Middle East and vice-versa. So we look into the economy of the region specifically of Iran in the Middle East and Eurasia. We look into the role of global politics in the economy such as U.S. sanctions and also we are looking into the regional institutions. For example, ECO is a regional institution, regional and economic alliance between Iran, Turkey and Pakistan and Central Asian countries. We look into the energy sector in Iran and connect that with the Middle East as well such as oil and gas and we look into global markets, we look into other industrial elements, car manufacturing and also we look into armed forces manufacturing and their impacts on the economy for instance, Revolutionary Guard for instance, all these elements. In other words, the economy will be discussed in a very analytical way and we specifically design two weeks only to talk about economy and a lot of other things that we will have for each of them one week and we discuss that in depth also we look into Iranian cinema. We look into Iran's tourism industry and when I say tourism industry, we look into the tourism industry in Iran and the Middle East in tourists visiting Iran and vice-versa. We look into national sport, what does it mean sport and football and the rest in terms of the national identity and the connections between the nations around the globe and specifically in the Middle East. We look into also one very important element which is a gender discourse, we look into women movements, the role of women and in all these developments that I mentioned history, culture, economy and politics, where do they stand, what are the obstacles and challenges and what are the achievements. We look into Islamic law and human rights as well. We discuss about ethnic minorities for instance in the Middle East, the Kurdish question, Turkish, Persian, the Arabs and all together we look into those elements as well and at the end we complement that with the poetry and the literature in this regard and one thing specifically for this one module as a case study that I give you is we invite also prominent academics from institutions beyond so as for instance this year we had a guest lecture from George Mason University of Washington DC from Nagoya University in Japan and Shanghai University of China. We really invite other prominent professors that actually do similar things in the institutions outside and to have a lecture from them as well. So by the end of the day what I would say is that when you graduate from these courses for example one of the modules is Iran history, culture and politics that I gave you on kind of an overview of it. Our aim is for both modules of the Middle Eastern studies and Iranian studies is that students to come out as experts, as specialists and you have absolute autonomy to choose what specific elements you want to be an expert in the history, in international politics, international relations or in terms of the languages, in terms of cinema, in terms of gender politics, in terms of economy, in terms of national sport or in terms of human rights and minority rights. These are the things that you can choose. By the end of the day you will be an expert and specialist and all these elements are complemented and supported by our fantastic language courses that we have such as Persian language courses, Turkish language courses, Arabic language courses that actually allows you to complement that speciality and to be fully proper experts in this specific region in any micro elements that actually you would love to be. So I can unshare this now and I can share it again if it was needed, but let's have a discussion if you have any questions and then I'm not sure if you can talk, you can even talk, you don't need to write it only. Feel free to discuss that all elements. Another question says are there many mature students on the Middle Eastern studies? Yes, we do. We do have, that's the beauty of this course. The reason is that Bodhika, the point is a very, very good question. We do have mature students because these two specific courses that we have for those want to be specialists is not about only a postgraduate is also to be a specialist. And yes, we do have mature students. It's a very very good mixture in terms of age, in terms of gender balance, in terms of ethnicities, very global, very kind of a rainbow. In terms of Marcel is asking, but feel free if you, I'm not sure if you can talk, can you? Or just Zoom is not letting you to talk. So let me say this, you said in terms of job opportunities. Well, Marcel is a very good question. I'll give you an example. One of the students that I had, what's from Japan, finished him in the Iranian studies and then now he's working as a deputy director of Asahi Shimbot news agency in Tehran. And he's there, he's in Iran. Oh, I had other students that actually are working in the embassies. You can work in your embassies. You can work in the Foreign Office. You can work in the Red Cross, United Nations. You can work in the companies that are dealing with the other businesses or risk management. You can work in IAEA. You can work with WHO, you can work in UNICEF. I have the students that are actually working there because, as I said, in these two specific courses in Iranian studies and near-eminent studies, you will be a specialist. And that's the reason. Alumni positioning. Yes. Well, we have very good alumni positioning actually. And I will tell you that alumni, as I mentioned, I have a student still are in touch with me. Alumni graduated and are very, in a very good position, working from being a diplomat in far East, from one of the far East countries, come all the way to working United Nations and working in the news agencies. And most of my students actually are even troubled to Iran or to Middle East or to the station there. And you mentioned, relative apologies if this is a very specific question, but I would like to become a specialist in ethnic minorities in the region. Yes, you can be, Thomas. And in terms of ethnic minorities, because the Middle East is a quite a broad area, you may select which ethnic minority you want to be. For example, in the MA Iranian studies, we have a specifically one week on ethnic minorities. And we talk about the Kurdish question. We talk about Azeri-Turkish question. We talk about minorities such as Turkmen. And actually, I have a students that their dissertation, Thomas, is about ethnic minorities in Iran, because Iran has got more than seven different ethnic minorities. So that's why they selected that. And they are quite specialist in that regard. It is very, very, there's a specific field people going to. Yes, Marcel, it's a good question. They are specific, as I mentioned, you have absolute autonomy, Marcel. For instance, I'll give you an example. In the MA Iranian studies, you have absolute freedom to choose this specific microelement. For instance, when we talk about Iran, history, culture, and politics, which is we are looking to hold with this as well, you can select one specific element. For instance, we have a student that actually their dissertation is specifically about woman rights. One is about football. The other students want to be specialists on economy. One of the students want to be specialists on economy of gas or renewable energies. The other students are specialists on the international relations only, or they want to be specific experts on the literature. So in any aspect, economy, culture, languages, international relations, international politics, internal politics, all you can select and you can focus on that and be a specialist, for instance, specialist on all an energy economy based in the region. So I hope this answered your question, Marcel. Shohan, I got an offer for history of art and architecture in Islamic Middle East. Do I get to choose the word from the MA Iranian studies or Middle East studies? I hope so, Shohan. You need to ask that question from your department and see the structure of your course. This is very important, Shohan. Go to the course that you actually got the offer and ask them if they would allow you to choose. If you go to our website, for instance, and you click on the structure, it tells you which course modules are core modules and which are optional and where you can get them. So I hope they have the same thing, but I would recommend you to email them. First of all, check that website and email them and see, can I select this course from this department? I am, for instance, from MA Iranian studies and if they say yes, fantastic. If they say no, you can request, say I want to take this, can I and see what they say? If not, you're very welcome to shift and come to MA Iranian studies and we will make sure that we will cover Islamic architecture and Islamic art as well. Gabrielle, I have advanced level of Arabic pre-emissive Persian and beginning of Turkish, can I study all three at the same time? Gabrielle, you can, but you need to look into the structure. Do you remember I gave you in the beginning of the discussion presentation that 180 credits, so you have 64 dissertations, then you have 34, let's say 30 plus 15 for core module, then for the optional module, you can choose the language, yes, you can. And then it's up to you which one you prefer. For instance, if you're fluent in Arabic, you may choose Persian or you may choose Turkish because then you can improve these two to be fluent as well. And that was Gabrielle. He is asking after you submit an application, I usually take four to a few moments to a decision, so I does not need to wait for 30 years of duty. That is me, I don't need to ask, I'm just having other questions. I have my BA in Iranian studies in South Korea, oh fantastic, how amazing. Is this program also great for pursue PhD? Yes, we do have students, actually we had students from South Korea and Japan came and they did an Iranian studies and then after that actually they are submitting the application for PhD for Iranian studies at the same department with us and we have fantastic PhD students that actually managed to get to that level through MA Iranian studies because the MA Iranian studies in our school, SLCL, like me I'm really least, we give you a different dimension, we make you to be experts on, for example, Iranian studies and then you can select which specific element you want to conduct your research even further. So my answer is yes, we do and you will be in that stage soon. And what about the research institution think tank top opportunities, yes Leon, very good questions. We have, as I mentioned, students that have finished MA Iranian studies, some of them are actually on experts, not only working in news agencies or embassies, but also for research centers. We have a lot of research centers that we are working with. We have a center of Iranian studies at Salas which is with us together and through that center you will be a member of that center and then you can be linked to research institutions in the UK and beyond and to be part of the research institutions, to be with think tank actually. We have a number of students that after finishing MA Iranian studies, they actually established think tank themselves. So when you start, we will link you with the think tanks that you feel more comfortable with. And then I can see Yijing answer your questions. By the way, we also have a Khamran Janis scholarship. So some of you might be interested to apply for MA Iranian studies through Khamran Janis scholarship and this is a quite gifted scholarship and I would also recommend you to apply for Khamran Janis scholarship which you can find it at Salas website. And Gabriel, which destinations do students go for summer abroad for MA in the Middle East? Parisians pathway. So this is a very good question Gabriel. Well, it depends. For instance, for Iran, we have students go to Tajikistan and we have students go to Armenia or some of the students even go to Iran, but this is their own initiative for summer. For them, so it depends on their, let's say, preference. But for also near Middle East studies, we have students that go to Jordan, they go to Turkey and Egypt and so on. So I would say it depends on your preference and also on your desire. And let me find also for you the website for Khamran Janis. So any other questions or you can discuss anything? Okay, so I will also send you this link and this is a link for everybody, for everyone so you can see if you are interested to apply for a scholarship as well. As I mentioned, the goal for MA near and Middle East studies and MA rendering studies, which they go hand in hand together, is to make sure at the end of the day, you will be an expert. And the beauty of it is that in SLCL, School of Culture Languages and Linguistics, you have absolute opportunity to receive support from academics and also to equip yourself with the politics, with culture, with history, with sociology, with economy and language courses. In other words, why from my point of view, this school and these specific two programs and the specific department is distinct and unique is because you will be specialists, not in not having a postgraduate degree, but you will be specialists as well as having a postgraduate degree. And that is different. And in other words, you will be expected to make comments on global media and beyond. And so this is specifically, for instance, when you study medicine, some people want to be specialists on eye surgery. That's what we do in this specific department for these two courses. How many students will receive it? Well, we don't know. This scholarship is endowment, you know, and they will be decided by the endowment committee. And it depends on how many applications they receive. And then they give you the answer. But hopefully, I do hope there will be more students together. But it depends on the applications for the scholarship. Can I ask when I can hear the result of the scholarship, I believe? Well, I think the result of the scholarship will come from them directly, not from us, because Cameron Jump scholarship is decided by the panel, which is not specifically part of us. So I think you should receive it after the deadline. And I believe deadline, I think, is April or May. But let me see it says, when is the deadline? Yeah, second of May is the deadline. So I would say you should receive something after that. Yes, absolutely. Any other questions, anything. But I tell you in conclusion, that I did teach in other departments, and I did teach in other universities, and I studied in other departments myself and other universities. This specific department will make you to go through a very interesting journey and to be specifically an expert in that specific part of this study that you are interested. So any other questions? Did I miss any question? If I missed any question, please re-type it, and I will be happy to answer. What research institutions I answer that? Many research institutions. Chatham House has got even students, especially in Chatham House, that actually used to be part of our department. We have team times, we have many, many other places. Okay, Thomas, Bodhikar, Daniel, Hamta, Yeon, Choi, everybody. Thank you very much. I didn't miss anything. I do personally hope to see you next year, I mean in September, and hope to see you that you're enjoying it as well. I think there'll be one more question about recommended reading list. Yes. Yeah, maybe quickly answer that then we can finish today. Which one is? There are recommended reading lists for MA in Middle Eastern study. Okay, recommended reading list. Well, if you check our website, we do put, we have a syllabus as well. We have a recommended reading list for instance, but when you get, when you start in syllabus, we add them all in there. It depends which topic you want to study. For instance, we have the reading books like, one thing I forgot to tell you all is that the reading list that we provide you with are the most up-to-date. So in every course that we provide for these two programs, the books are the newest and coming from the most prominent writers. For instance, the book What Is Iran by Arshin Ali Mughaladam, the books by Hamid Dabashi, the books in Iraq, by Tavi Daj, and many other things. So it depends what specific elements of the Middle Eastern want to study. And then we recommend you that. For instance, when it comes to Iraq, the writings by Tavi Daj, for instance, when it comes to Iran, the writings by Arshin Ali Mughaladam and Hamid Dabashi. And we do have also, it depends on what, but we do have a set of reading books that you can find it in the websites or indicated in the syllabus. How the advisor will be decided? Professor, yourself will be the advisor. Yes, I am. I'm one of the supervisors and my other colleagues that I mentioned to you, Dr. Yorgos Dedez, my very good colleague and other colleagues. And we'll also have even other colleagues from the other departments that we can choose. But you have absolute freedom to nominate your supervisor. For instance, my specialties on Iran by the same time on Syria, on Palestine, on Iraq, on ethnic minority rights, and also Turkey. We have Dr. Yorgos Dedez, specialties in Turkey, for instance, and the rest of the Middle East. Professor Arshin Ali Mughaladam, the same. So yes, but I'm one of the advisors and I really enjoy working with my students. So you have absolute freedom to choose your advisor. Okay, thank you very much Ali. And thanks for everyone for this informative and interactive taster session. I hope you all got something you wanted. And feel free to check our YouTube channel as well if you want to see all the previous open days and taster session related to the subjects. And thank you very much. Bye. Bye, everybody.