Past Events 2013
Protest and Revolution Across the Arab World: Reflections Three Years On
Wednesday 4 December | Madawi Al-Rasheed, LSE; John Chalcraft, LSE; Ewan Stein, University of Edinburgh
US Foreign Policy and the Iranian Revolution: The Dynamics of Engagement and Strategic Alliance
Monday 2 December | Christian Emery, University of Plymouth
Iranian Foreign Policy after the Election of Hassan Rouhani
Wednesday 27 November | Anoush Ehteshami, Durham University
The Syrian Civil War: The Resilience of Civil Society
Friday 22 November | Lina Sinjab, BBC
Re-Negotiating the Terms of EU-Israel Partnership: Normative Power and International Law
Monday 11 November | Charles Shamas, Mattin Group
Modern Middle East Studies as a Distinct Intellectual Field
Monday 21 October | Roger Owen, Harvard University
The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring
Wednesday 16 October | Paul Danahar, BBC
A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia
Monday 7 October | Madawi Al-Rasheed, LSE
Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East
Wednesday 2 October | Christopher Schroeder
The Gaza Kitchen: Documenting a culinary heritage and a food system under stress
Wednesday 8 May | Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt
The Kurds and the Conflict in Syria
Friday 3 May | Saleh Muslim Mohamed, Democratic Union Party (PYD)
A Panel Discussion on Palestine
Friday 26 April | Karma Nabulsi, University of Oxford; Ilan Pappe, University of Exeter; Rosemary Hollis, City University; Peter Kosminsky, Director of ‘The Promise’
The Politics of Business in the Middle East After the Arab Spring
Thursday 21 March | Steffen Hertog, LSE; Giacomo Luciani, Science-Po; Marc Valeri, University of Exeter; and Khalid Almezaini, Qatar University
The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran
Monday 18 March | Ali Ansari, University of St Andrews
Energy Security and Shifting Global Power
Monday 11 March | Roland Dannreuther, University of Westminster
Revolution as Gambling: Egypt Under the Muslim Brotherhood
Monday 4 March | Hazem Kandil, Cambridge University
The New Middle East: Protest and Revolution in the Arab World
Thursday 21 February | Fawaz Gerges, LSE
In the Eye of the Storm: The History of Lebanon Revisited
Monday 18 February | Fawwaz Traboulsi, American University of Beirut
Phyllis Bennis: In Conversation with Fawaz Gerges
Friday 8 February | Phyllis Bennis, New Internationalism Project, IPS
Rethinking Diffusion: 1989, the Colour Revolutions, and the Arab Uprisings
Monday 4 February | Valerie Bunce, Cornell University
Co-organised with the Society for Algerian Studies
Colonial Control in Algeria: the French Security and Intelligence Services between the Two World Wars
Monday 28 January | Rabah Aissaoui, University of Leicester
Is Jordan Immune to the Arab Spring Uprisings?
Wednesday 23 January | Tariq Tell, American University of Beirut
Islam and the Politics of Resistance: The Case of Women in Iran
Wednesday 16 January | Haleh Afshar, House of Lords