Past Events 2014
The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication
Tuesday 2 December | Lina Khatib, Carnegie Middle East Center; Dina Matar, SOAS; Atef Alshaer, University of Westminster
The Uprising of the Marginalised: A Socio-Economic Perspective into the Collapse of the Ba'ath Rule in Syria
Monday 24 November | Shamel Azmeh, LSE
Anglo-Iranian Relations Revisited: The Curious Case of the Proposed Nuclear Company of Britain and Iran
Wednesday 19 November | Ali Ansari, St Andrews University
Transboundary Climate Security: Climate Vulnerability and Rural Livelihoods in the Jordan River Basin
Tuesday 18 November | Michael Mason, LSE; Muna Dajani, LSE
Co-organised with the Society for Algerian Studies
1960s Algeria: Women, Public Space and Moral Panic
Wednesday 12 November | Natalya Vince, University of Portsmouth
New Trends of Women's Activism after the Arab Uprisings: Redefining Women's Leadership
Thursday 6 November | Aitemad Muhanna-Matar, LSE
Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
High-Risk Activism and Popular Struggle Against the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank
Tuesday 4 November | Joel Beinin, Stanford University
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War
Thursday 16 October | Roham Alvandi, LSE
Iraq: Causes and Consequences of the Present Crisis
Thursday 26 June | Toby Dodge, LSE; Amb Feisal Istrabadi, Indiana University; Faleh Jabar, Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies
Oman's Foreign Policy Under Sultan Qaboos: Independent but to What Extent?
Thursday 22 May | Marc Valeri, University of Exeter
Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
Will the Real Palestinian Peasantry Please Sit Down? Towards a New History of British Rule in Palestine, 1917–1936
Tuesday 20 May | Charles Anderson
US–Iran Détente: Past and Present
Monday 12 May | Ambassador John Limbert; Christian Emery, LSE; Roham Alvandi, LSE
Co-organised with the LSE Department of International Development
The Struggle for Iraq's Future
Wednesday 7 May | Zaid Al-Ali, International IDEA
Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
New Social Movements and the Question of Organisation During Revolutionary Processes
Tuesday 6 May | Maha Abdelrahman, University of Cambridge
The Nazi-Soviet Pact in the Light of Transnational History: Persian Connections in German–Soviet Relations
Wednesday 30 April | Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto
Syria-Iraq Relations: From State Formation to the Arab Uprising
Wednesday 19 March | Raymond Hinnebusch, University of St Andrews
Co-organised with the Society for Algerian Studies
Algeria and its Southern Neighbours: Turbulence in the Sahara
Monday 10 March | Yvan Guichaoua, University of East Anglia; Imad Mesdoua
Diversified but Marginal: The GCC Private Sector as an Economic and Political Force
Wednesday 5 March | Steffen Hertog, LSE
Qatari Foreign Policy and the Changing Regional Order in the Middle East
Wednesday 26 February | Lina Khatib, Carnegie Middle East Center
The Dialectics of the Arab Revolutions: 2011–2013
Tuesday 25 February | Gilles Kepel, Sciences Po
Neoliberal Development in Palestine and the Regional Context
Monday 24 February | Adam Hanieh, SOAS
Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
The Politics of the Urban Everyday in the Arab Revolutions
Wednesday 12 February | Salwa Ismail, SOAS
Israel: The Arab Spring, Domestic Politics and the Future of the Arab–Israeli Peace Process
Monday 10 February | Ahron Bregman, King's College London
BRISMES Annual Lecture
The Quest for Cultural Authenticity and the Politics of Identity
Wednesday 5 February | Sami Zubaida
The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising
Monday 27 January | Gilbert Achcar, SOAS
Co-organised with the Society for Algerian Studies
Western Sahara: Stalemate and its Discontents
Wednesday 22 January | Alice Wilson, University of Cambridge
Agency and Gender in Gaza: Masculinity, Femininity and Family During the Second Intifada
Monday 20 January | Aitemad-Muhanna Matar, LSE
Co-organised with the LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: A Critical Perspective
Thursday 16 January | Omar Nashabe, Lebanese American University
Syria's Age of Revolution: Peaceful Protest to Armed Struggle
Monday 13 January | Yezid Sayigh, Carnegie Middle East Center