Past Events 2015

After the Nuclear Deal: Iranian foreign policy in the Middle East
Wednesday 9 December

Speaker: Dina Esfandiary, King's College London
Chair: Roham Alvandi, LSE

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Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
Revisiting the Arab Spring in Bahrain
Tuesday 8 December

Speaker: Abdulhadi Khalaf, Lund University
Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE

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The State of Algeria: The politics of a post-colonial legacy
Wednesday 2 December

Speaker: Malika Rebai, National Graduate School of Political Science
Chair: John King, Society for Algerian Studies

The Revival of Nationalism and Secularism in Modern Iran
Tuesday 1 December

Speaker: Pejman Abdolmohammadi, LSE
Chair: Roham Alvandi, LSE

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Women's Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: inclusion and exclusion
Wednesday 18 November

Speakers: Ernestina Coast, LSE; Rita Giacaman and Doaa Hammoudeh, Institute of Community and Public Health
Chair: Tiziana Leone, LSE

Why is Syria so Statist? Revisiting ideas and economic change in historical institutionalism
Thursday 29 October

Speaker: Daniel Neep, Georgetown University
Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE

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The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism

Wednesday 28 October
Speaker: Toby Matthiesen, University of Oxford
Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE

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Algeria's Belle Epoque: Memories of the 1970s
Wednesday 21 October

Speaker: Ed McAllister, University of Oxford
Chair: John King, Society for Algerian Studies

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Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
Between Hegemony and Resistance: towards a moral economy of the Tunisian Revolution
Tuesday 20 October

Speaker: Sami Zemni, Middle East and North Africa Research Group
Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE

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Pursuing Atrocity Accountability in Syria
Wednesday 14 October

Speakers: Susan Lamb, Commission for International Justice and Accountability; Toby Cadman, 9 Bedford Row International
Chair: Kirsten Ainley, LSE

Other 'gentrifications': remaking Ras Beirut
Thursday 1 October

Speakers: Fran Tonkiss, LSE; Mona Khechen, AUB
Chair: Romola Sanyal, LSE

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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

Speakers: Martha Mundy, LSE; Rami Zurayk and Cynthia Gharios, AUB
Chair: Michael Mason, LSE

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From the River to the Sea: taking the pulse of Palestine-Israel 20 years after Oslo
Wednesday 2 September

Speakers: Mandy Turner, Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL); Cherine Hussein, CBRL; Mansour Nsasra, CBRL; Toufic Haddad, SOAS; Dimi Reider; Raja Khalidi; Diana Buttu
Chair: Alaa Tartir, LSE

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The Ethics of Political Science Research and Teaching in MENA
10-11 June 2015, Rabat, Morocco

Co-organised with the University Mohammed V in Rabat

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Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
Bahraini Activism in Exile: Legacies and Revolutionary Ruptures
Wednesday 3 June

Speaker: Claire Beaugrand, Institut Français du Proche Orient
Discussant: Filippo Dionigi, LSE
Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE

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Saudi Islamists on Peaceful Revolution: divine politics reconsidered
Tuesday 2 June

Speaker: Madawi al-Rasheed, LSE
Chair: Steffen Hertog, LSE

Being Salafi under Sisi: the strategy of the Egyptian al-Nour party
Tuesday 26 May

Speaker: Stéphane Lacroix, Sciences Po
Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE

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Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
How Self-Limiting Mobilisations Work: the case of Morocco
Wednesday 20 May

Speaker: Frédéric Vairel, University of Ottawa
Discussant: Nawal Mustafa, LSE
Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE

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Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
Of Regime and Movements: authoritarian reform and the 2011 popular uprisings in Morocco
Tuesday 19 May

Speaker: Frédéric Vairel, University of Ottawa
Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE

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LSE Middle East Alumni Forum 2015, Dubai
Monday 11 May, Dubai, UAE

Confirmed Speakers: Craig Calhoun, LSE; Erik Berglof, LSE; Toby Dodge, LSE; Steffen Hertog, LSE

An Impending Nuclear Deal With Iran?
Tuesday 5 May

Speaker: Mark Fitzpatrick, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE

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The Algeria-UK Relationship: the building of a partnership
Monday 27 April

Speaker: HE Amar Abba
Chair: William Sinton, Society for Algerian Studies

International Statebuilding and Gender in the Middle East Conference
Monday 30 March

Speakers: Various

Democracy in Turkey: institutions, society and foreign relations
Thursday 19 March

Speakers: Deniz Kandiyoti, SOAS; Ali Çarkoğlu, Koç Üniversitesi; Berna Turam, Northeastern University
Chair: Esra Ozyurek, LSE

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Empire, Revolt, and State Formation in the Middle East and North Africa in the 1920s
Tuesday 17 March

Speaker: Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale University
Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE

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Algeria: A state and its discontents
Tuesday 10 March

Speaker: Lahouari Addi, Sciences Po Lyon
Chair: John King, Society for Algerian Studies

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Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
The Non-Contentious Politics of Labour Protests in Egypt
Wednesday 25 February

Speaker: Marie Duboc, University of Tübingen
Discussant: Jann Boeddeling, LSE
Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE

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Middle East Border Geopolitics: Established and Emerging Themes
Tuesday 24 February

Speaker: Richard Schofield, King's College London
Chair: Madawi Al-Rasheed, LSE

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Iraq After America: Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance
Tuesday 17 February

Speaker: Joel Rayburn, National Defense University
Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE

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The Politics of Foreign Aid in the Arab World: the impact of the Arab uprisings
Friday 13 February

Speakers: Alaa Tartir, LSE; Jeremy Wildeman, University of Essex; Leila Mouhib, Universite Libre de Bruxelles; Steven Heydemann, United States Institute of Peace; Benoit Challand, New York University
Chair: Federica Bicchi, LSE
Discussants: Mattia Toaldo, European Council on Foreign Relations; Michelle Pace, Roskilde University

Recalibrating Authoritarianism After the Arab Spring
Thursday 12 February

Speaker: Steven Heydemann, United States Institute of Peace
Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE

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Syria and the Future of the State Order in the Levant
Wednesday 11 February

Speaker: Steven Heydemann, United States Institute of Peace
Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE

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Jobs or Privileges: unleashing the employment‎ potential of the Middle East and North Africa
Friday 06 February

Speakers: Marc Schiffbauer; Hania Sahnoun, World Bank
Chair: Erik Berglof, LSE

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Hezbollah, Islamist Politics, and International Society
Monday 2 February

Speaker: Filippo Dionigi, LSE
Chair: Katerina Dalacoura, LSE

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Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: Motivations and Implications
Tuesday 27 January

Speaker: Peter Neumann, King's College London
Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE

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Middle East Careers
Thursday 22 January

Speakers Include: Heidi Minshall, FCO; Joel Bubbers, British Council; Noman Elkhuja, Amnesty International; Tom Finn, Middle East Eye
Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE

Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
Theorising Revolution, Anticipating Civil War: Class, State, and Political Practice in 1960s Lebanon
Wednesday 21 January

Speaker: Fadi Bardawil, University of North Carolina
Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE
Discussant: Fuad Musallam, LSE

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Berber Government: The Kabyle Polity in Pre-colonial Algeria
Monday 12 January

Speaker: Hugh Roberts, Tufts University
Chair: John King, Society for Algerian Studies

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