Forthcoming Events

Lectures, Seminars & Book Launches

LSE hosts a wide and varied range of Middle East events, including public lectures, seminars, book launches and conferences. Events are open to the public and are free of charge, unless specified otherwise. This list of events includes all Middle East Centre events and other selected Middle East events at LSE.

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Power, Resistance, Ideology and the State: Charles Tripp and the Comparative Politics of the Middle East

Thursday 8 May | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Ali M. Ansari, University of St Andrews; Eberhard Kienle, SciencesPo Paris; Daniel Neep, The George Washington University; Evaleila Pesaran, University of Cambridge

Register here

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Co-organised with the Department of Economic History

Elite conflict, colonialism and democracy in the Middle East

Thursday 29 March | 18:00 - 19:30 GMT | Mohamed Saleh, LSE

Free to attend | more information

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Kurdish Studies Conference, Weds 11 - Fri 13 June 2025

This interdisciplinary event builds on the conferences held at Sheffield in 2024 and LSE in 2023, and is organised by the Kurdish Studies Series at the LSE Middle East Centre and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield.

Register to attend