Kuwait Programme - Public lectures

LSE Kuwait Programme annual lecture

18 October 2016

Politics in Modern Arab Art

Speaker: Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi

LSE Kuwait Programme-LSE Cities public lecture in Kuwait

27 September 2016

Cities and the new climate economy: on the role of urban form and transport

Speaker: Philipp Rode, LSE Cities

Public lecture in Kuwait

8 March 2016

The GCC 'welfare state' in the era of low oil prices: implications for the private sector and labour markets

Speaker: Professor Steffen Hertog, LSE

LSE Kuwait Programme annual lecture

12 January 2016

The Arab world at the crossroads: collapse or reform?

Speaker: Professor Shafeeq Ghabra, Kuwait University

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11 November 2015

Rentier Islamism: the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf

Speaker: Courtney Freer, Kuwait Programme, LSE

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15 September 2015

The evolution of Kuwaiti democracy

Speaker: Marzouq Al-Ghanim, Speaker of the Kuwait National Assembly

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LSE Kuwait Programme annual lecture

18 March 2015

The origins of Kuwait's National Assembly in comparative perspective

Speaker: Dr Michael Herb, Georgia State University

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20 January 2015

Bahrain's election boycott: Lessons from Kuwait

Speaker: Dr Kristin Smith Diwan, American University

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1 May 2014

The New Middle East Cold War

Speaker: F. Gregory Gause, III, professor of political science at the University of Vermont and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center

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20 January 2014

The End of Power

Speaker: Moisés Naím, scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an internationally syndicated columnist

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2 May 2013

Saving the Arab Spring: Economic development in the Middle East

Speakers: Bassem Awadallah, former Jordanian Minister of Finance. Adeel Malik (pictured), Islamic Centre Lecturer in Development Economics and Globe Fellow in the Economies of Muslim Societies at Oxford University

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13 November 2012

Economic transition in the Arab World: opportunities and challenges

Speaker: David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund

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25 October 2012

The Gulf and the global economy: the state of the world

Speakers: Professor Iain Begg, European Institute, LSE. Arnab Das, Managing Director of Research, Roubini Global Economics. Dr Gerard Lyons, Chief Economist and Group Head, Global Research, Standard Chartered Bank. Rachel Ziemba (pictured), Director of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa and global macroeconomics, Roubini Global Economics

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24 October 2012

After the Arab Spring: the Gulf monarchies in an age of uncertainty

Speaker: Christopher Davidson, Reader in Middle East Politics in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University and author of the forthcoming book After the Sheikhs: the coming collapse of the Gulf monarchies (Hurst, 2012)

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8 May 2012

Fuel on the fire: oil and politics in Iraq

Speaker: Greg Muttitt, Campaigns and Policy Director at War on Want and author of Fuel on the fire: oil and politics in occupied Iraq published by Bodley Head

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19 December 2011

The transformation of the Gulf book launch in Kuwait

Speakers, Dr Abdullah K. Al-Shayji (pictured), Head of the Political Science Department, Kuwait University. Dr Neil Partrick, Visiting Fellow, LSE. Dr Kristian Ulrichsen, LSE

10 November 2011

The transformation of the Gulf book launch at the LSE

Speakers: Bassam Fattouh (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, pictured), Kristian Ulrichsen (LSE) and Neil Partrick (independent Gulf expert)

17 November 2009

Obama and the Arabs: The historical context

Speaker: Dr Eugene Rogan, Director of Oxford's Middle East Centre and author of The Arab's: a history, published by Penguin

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7 May 2009

LSESU Gulf Co-operation Council Society public lecture

The Saudi-US relationship: past developments and future prospects

Speaker: Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States of America from 2005 to 2007

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16 February 2009

Democracy in Kuwait and its effect on the Gulf

Speaker: Abdullah Bishara, Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, 1981-1993

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15 January 2009

The British involvement in Kuwait: lessons for today?

Speaker: Richard Muir, British Ambassador to Kuwait, 1999-2002

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