Past Events 2015
After the Nuclear Deal: Iranian Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Wednesday 9 December | Dina Esfandiary, King's College London
Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
Revisiting the Arab Spring in Bahrain
Tuesday 8 December | Abdulhadi Khalaf, Lund University
The Revival of Nationalism and Secularism in Modern Iran
Tuesday 1 December | Pejman Abdolmohammadi, LSE
Kuwait Programme Seminar
GCC intervention in Yemen: A Pathway to Peace and Security?
Tuesday 17 November | Michael Stephens, RUSI
Kuwait Programme Seminar
Rentier Islamism: The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf
Wednesday 11 November | Courtney Freer, LSE Middle East Centre
Why is Syria so Statist? Revisiting Ideas and Economic Change in Historical Institutionalism
Thursday 29 October | Daniel Neep, Georgetown University
The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism
Wednesday 28 October | Toby Matthiesen, University of Oxford
Algeria's Belle Epoque: Memories of the 1970s
Wednesday 21 October | Ed McAllister, University of Oxford
Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
Between Hegemony and Resistance: Towards a Moral Economy of the Tunisian Revolution
Tuesday 20 October | Sami Zemni, MENA Research Group
Other 'Gentrifications': Remaking Ras Beirut
Thursday 1 October | Fran Tonkiss, LSE; Mona Khechen, AUB
And What if one Spoke of the Land? Labour, food and the making of space in modern South Lebanon
Tuesday 29 September | Martha Mundy, LSE; Rami Zurayk and Cynthia Gharios, AUB
From the River to the Sea: taking the pulse of Palestine-Israel 20 years after Oslo
Wednesday 2 September | Mandy Turner, Cherine Hussein, Mansour Nsasra, Toufic Haddad, Dimi Reider, Raja Khalidi, Diana Buttu
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The Ethics of Political Science Research and Teaching in MENA
10–11 June 2015, Rabat, Morocco
Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
Bahraini Activism in Exile: Legacies and Revolutionary Ruptures
Wednesday 3 June | Claire Beaugrand, Institut Français du Proche Orient
Saudi Islamists on Peaceful Revolution: Divine Politics Reconsidered
Tuesday 2 June | Madawi al-Rasheed, LSE Middle East Centre
Being Salafi under Sisi: The Strategy of the Egyptian al-Nour Party
Tuesday 26 May | Stéphane Lacroix, Sciences Po
Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
How Self-Limiting Mobilisations Work: The Case of Morocco
Wednesday 20 May | Frédéric Vairel, University of Ottawa
Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
Of Regime and Movements: Authoritarian Reform and the 2011 Popular Uprisings in Morocco
Tuesday 19 May | Frédéric Vairel, University of Ottawa
An Impending Nuclear Deal With Iran?
Tuesday 5 May | Mark Fitzpatrick, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Democracy in Turkey: institutions, society and foreign relations
Thursday 19 March | Deniz Kandiyoti, SOAS; Ali Çarkoğlu, Koç Üniversitesi; Berna Turam, Northeastern University
Kuwait Programme Seminar
The Origins of Kuwait's National Assembly in Comparative Perspective
Wednesday 18 March | Michael Herb, Georgia State University
Empire, Revolt, and State Formation in the Middle East and North Africa in the 1920s
Tuesday 17 March | Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale University
Algeria: A State and its Discontents
Tuesday 10 March | Lahouari Addi, Sciences Po Lyon
Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
The Non-Contentious Politics of Labour Protests in Egypt
Wednesday 25 February | Marie Duboc, University of Tübingen
Middle East Border Geopolitics: Established and Emerging Themes
Tuesday 24 February | Richard Schofield, King's College London
Iraq after America: Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance
Tuesday 17 February | Joel Rayburn, National Defense University
Recalibrating Authoritarianism after the Arab Spring
Thursday 12 February | Steven Heydemann, United States Institute of Peace
Syria and the Future of the State Order in the Levant
Wednesday 11 February | Steven Heydemann, United States Institute of Peace
Jobs or Privileges: unleashing the employment potential of the Middle East and North Africa
Friday 6 February | Marc Schiffbauer; Hania Sahnoun, World Bank
Hezbollah, Islamist Politics, and International Society
Monday 2 February | Filippo Dionigi, LSE Middle East Centre
Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: Motivations and Implications
Tuesday 27 January | Peter Neumann, King's College London
Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
Theorising Revolution, Anticipating Civil War: Class, State and Political Practice in 1960s Lebanon
Wednesday 21 January | Fadi Bardawil, University of North Carolina
Kuwait Programme Seminar
Bahrain's Election Boycott: Lessons From Kuwait
Tuesday 20 January | Kristin Smith Diwan, American University
Berber Government: The Kabyle Polity in Pre-colonial Algeria
Monday 12 January | Hugh Roberts, Tufts University