Speaker: Professor Madawi Al Rasheed, King's College London
Chair: Professor Fawaz Gerges, LSE
Monday 17 October 2011, 18:30 - 20:00, Wolfson Theatre
Professor Al Rasheed's lecture will survey Saudi domestic politics during the so-called Arab Spring and explore classic regime strategies to contain signs of turbulence. A combination of harsh security measures, economic benefits and religious obedience and sectarianism has succeeded in containing demands for greater political reforms in the Kingdom. In the long-term, Saudi Arabia faces serious societal and leadership challenges, not to mention regional competition between the Kingdom and two powerful actors, Iran and Turkey.
This lecture is open to all and registration is not required.
Admission is on a first come first served basis.
Speakers
Madawi Al Rasheed | is a Saudi-Arabian-born professor of social anthropology at the department of Theology and Religious Studies in King's College London since 1994.
Fawaz Gerges| is Professor of Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also holds the Emirates Chair of the Contemporary Middle East and is the Director of the Middle East Centre at LSE.
Location
Wolfson Theatre, LG.01, New Academic Building, LSE
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