Past Events Podcasts

Lectures, Interviews & 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 otherwise stated. 

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Most of our events are recorded and available on SoundCloud and iTunes. Browse our past events by year below. 

Past Events

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As part of the MEC's Kurdish Studies Series

Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey

Thursday 30 November | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Marlene Schäfers, Utrecht University

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Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region

Thursday 23 November | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Hamza Hamouchene & Katie Sandwell, Transnational Institute

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The Soil and The Sea (Film Screening and Q&A)

Tuesday 14 November | 18:00 - 20:00 GMT | Daniele Rugo, Director & Carmen Hassoun Abou Jaoudé, Producer

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The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine

Thursday 9 November | 18:00 - 19:30 GMT | Hazem Jamjoum, New York University; Bashir Abu-Manneh, University of Kent

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Broken Bonds: The Existential Crisis of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, 2013–22

Tuesday 24 October | 18:00 - 19:00 BST | Abdelrahman Ayyash, Century International; Amr ElAfifi, Freedom Initiative

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Student Careers Panel & Reception

Tuesday 10 October | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Arda Bilgen, LSE Middle East Centre; Marwa Baabbad, Yemen Policy Centre; Jack Sproson, Guernica 37 Chambers

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As part of the MEC's Kurdish Studies Series

Art and Activism in Iraqi Kurdistan: Feminist Fault Lines, Body Politics and the Struggle for Space

Thursday 5 October | 18:00 - 19:00 BST | Isabel Käser, LSE Middle East Centre; Houzan Mahmoud, Culture Project; Müjge Küçükkeleş, SOAS

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Charity in Saudi Arabia: Civil Society under Authoritarianism

Tuesday 13 June | 17:00 - 18:00 BST | Nora Derbal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hanaa Almoaibed, LSE Middle East Centre; Steffen Hertog, LSE

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As part of LSE Festival 2023

Changing Lives in the Middle East: cinematic responses

Monday 12 June | 18:15 - 19:45 BST | Amira Louadah & Suzannah Mirghani, Filmmakers

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Ecologies of Fragile Landscapes: Water, Waste and Toxicity in the Middle East, Friday 9 June 2023

This workshop will address the contemporary proliferation of 'fragile landscapes' in the Middle East and beyond, including the Eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea Region, and the Caucasus.

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Protectors of the State? The Popular Mobilisation Forces During the 2022 Post-Election Crisis

Thursday 25 May | 17:30 - 18:30 BST | Simona Foltyn, Journalist and Filmmaker

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Ruptured Domesticity: mapping spaces of refuge in Iraq,
3 April - 12 May 2023

How do people who have experienced war, trauma and loss, create spaces of refuge in violated homes and cities? Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, Dr Sana Murrani maps a visual archive exploring the ingenious everyday spatial practices of 15 Iraqis from the north to the south of the country between 2003 and 2020.

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The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East

Wednesday 10 May | 17:30 - 18:30 BST | Jamie Allinson, University of Edinburgh; Ala'a Shehabi, UCL; Charles Tripp, SOAS

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Israel's Covert Diplomacy in the Middle East

Thursday 4 May | 17:30 - 18:30 BST | Elie Podeh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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The History and Development of Kurdish Studies with Professor Martin van Bruinessen (Lecture & Reception)

Monday 24 April | 16:00 - 18:30 BST | Martin van Bruinessen, Utrecht University; Zeynep Kaya, LSE Middle East Centre

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Kurdish Studies Conference, 24-25 April 2023

This conference marks the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Kurdish Studies Series at the Middle East Centre and welcomes paper submissions with social sciences disciplinary approaches to any aspect of Kurdish studies.

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Ruptured Domesticity Exhibition Opening & Reception: In Conversation with Sana Murrani

Monday 3 April | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Sana Murrani, University of Plymouth; Ammar Azzouz, University of Oxford; Dena Qaddumi, LSE

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Podcasts by Year