After the Nuclear Deal: Iranian Foreign Policy in the Middle East

Wednesday 9 December | Dina Esfandiary, King's College London

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Revisiting the Arab Spring in Bahrain

Tuesday 8 December | Abdulhadi Khalaf, Lund University

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The Revival of Nationalism and Secularism in Modern Iran

Tuesday 1 December | Pejman Abdolmohammadi, LSE

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GCC intervention in Yemen: A Pathway to Peace and Security?

Tuesday 17 November | Michael Stephens, RUSI

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Rentier Islamism: The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf

Wednesday 11 November | Courtney Freer, LSE Middle East Centre

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Why is Syria so Statist? Revisiting Ideas and Economic Change in Historical Institutionalism

Thursday 29 October | Daniel Neep, Georgetown University

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The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism

Wednesday 28 October | Toby Matthiesen, University of Oxford

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Algeria's Belle Epoque: Memories of the 1970s

Wednesday 21 October | Ed McAllister, University of Oxford

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Tuesday 20 October | Sami Zemni, MENA Research Group

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Other 'Gentrifications': Remaking Ras Beirut

Thursday 1 October | Fran Tonkiss, LSE; Mona Khechen, AUB

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And What if one Spoke of the Land? Labour, food and the making of space in modern South Lebanon

Tuesday 29 September | Martha Mundy, LSE; Rami Zurayk and Cynthia Gharios, AUB

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From the River to the Sea: taking the pulse of Palestine-Israel 20 years after Oslo

Wednesday 2 September | Mandy Turner, Cherine Hussein, Mansour Nsasra, Toufic Haddad, Dimi Reider, Raja Khalidi, Diana Buttu

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The Ethics of Political Science Research and Teaching in MENA

10–11 June 2015, Rabat, Morocco

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Bahraini Activism in Exile: Legacies and Revolutionary Ruptures

Wednesday 3 June | Claire Beaugrand, Institut Français du Proche Orient

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Saudi Islamists on Peaceful Revolution: Divine Politics Reconsidered

Tuesday 2 June | Madawi al-Rasheed, LSE Middle East Centre

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Being Salafi under Sisi: The Strategy of the Egyptian al-Nour Party

Tuesday 26 May | Stéphane Lacroix, Sciences Po

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How Self-Limiting Mobilisations Work: The Case of Morocco

Wednesday 20 May | Frédéric Vairel, University of Ottawa

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Of Regime and Movements: Authoritarian Reform and the 2011 Popular Uprisings in Morocco

Tuesday 19 May | Frédéric Vairel, University of Ottawa

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An Impending Nuclear Deal With Iran?

Tuesday 5 May | Mark Fitzpatrick, International Institute for Strategic Studies

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Democracy in Turkey: institutions, society and foreign relations

Thursday 19 March | Deniz Kandiyoti, SOAS; Ali Çarkoğlu, Koç Üniversitesi; Berna Turam, Northeastern University

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The Origins of Kuwait's National Assembly in Comparative Perspective

Wednesday 18 March | Michael Herb, Georgia State University

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Empire, Revolt, and State Formation in the Middle East and North Africa in the 1920s

Tuesday 17 March | Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale University

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Algeria: A State and its Discontents

Tuesday 10 March | Lahouari Addi, Sciences Po Lyon

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The Non-Contentious Politics of Labour Protests in Egypt

Wednesday 25 February | Marie Duboc, University of Tübingen

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Middle East Border Geopolitics: Established and Emerging Themes

Tuesday 24 February | Richard Schofield, King's College London

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Iraq after America: Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance

Tuesday 17 February | Joel Rayburn, National Defense University

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Recalibrating Authoritarianism after the Arab Spring

Thursday 12 February | Steven Heydemann, United States Institute of Peace

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Syria and the Future of the State Order in the Levant

Wednesday 11 February | Steven Heydemann, United States Institute of Peace

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Jobs or Privileges: unleashing the employment‎ potential of the Middle East and North Africa

Friday 6 February | Marc Schiffbauer; Hania Sahnoun, World Bank

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Hezbollah, Islamist Politics, and International Society

Monday 2 February | Filippo Dionigi, LSE Middle East Centre

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Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: Motivations and Implications

Tuesday 27 January | Peter Neumann, King's College London

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Theorising Revolution, Anticipating Civil War: Class, State and Political Practice in 1960s Lebanon

Wednesday 21 January | Fadi Bardawil, University of North Carolina

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Bahrain's Election Boycott: Lessons From Kuwait

Tuesday 20 January | Kristin Smith Diwan, American University

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Berber Government: The Kabyle Polity in Pre-colonial Algeria

Monday 12 January | Hugh Roberts, Tufts University

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