Past Events 2016
Social Harmony: An Iraqi perspective
Wednesday 30 November | Lukman Faily, Senior Advisor to Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi
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The Religionisation of Israeli Society
Wednesday 16 November | Yoav Peled, Tel Aviv University; Horit Herman-Peled, Oranim Academic College
Thursday 10 November | Ali Ansari, St Andrews
Revisiting Rouhani's Election: The Politics of Managing Change in Iran
Yemen: A Battle for the Future
Wednesday 9 November | Ginny Hill, LSE Middle East Centre; Baraa Shiban, Reprieve
Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East
Wednesday 26 October | John Chalcraft, LSE
Kuwait Programme Seminar
Politics in Modern Arab Art
Tuesday 18 October | Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
Let's Rock/Rap it! Music as Collective Action: The Case of the Arab Spring
Tuesday 11 October | Amina Boubia, Sciences Po Centre for International Studies
The Fight Against ISIS: Kurds on the Front Line
Thursday 6 October | Lahur Talabany, Zanyari Agency
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Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East
Wednesday 5 October | Nelida Fuccaro, Ulrike Freitag, Rasmus Christian Elling
Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: A Turning Point?
Wednesday 15 June | Mireille Girard, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Wars of the Wombs: Struggles over Abortion Policies in Israel
Tuesday 7 June | Rebecca Steinfeld, Goldsmiths University
The AKP and Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Monday 18 April | Cengiz Çandar, Radikal; Zeynep Kaya, LSE
The Politics of International Intervention: The Tyranny of Peace
Wednesday 23 March | Mandy Turner, Florian P. Kühn, Michael Pugh, Caroline Hughes, Christopher Phillips, Toby Dodge
The Four Eras of Qatari Foreign Policy
Tuesday 22 March | David Roberts, King's College London
Engineers of Jihad: The curious connection between violent extremism and education
Wednesday 16 March | Steffen Hertog, LSE; Diego Gambetta, European University Institute
Why Some Contentious Movements Fail: The Case of the Syrian Opposition
Tuesday 15 March | Jasmine Gani, University of St Andrews
Alternative Universalisms? Contemporary Turkish Discourses on Culture in International Relations
Wednesday 2 March | Katerina Dalacoura, LSE
The Notion of Salafiyya: Between Saudi Arabia and Turkey
Tuesday 1 March | Andrew Hammond, University of Oxford
The Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Challenge to the Arab State
Wednesday 24 February | Filippo Dionigi, LSE
EU Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa: Lobbying, Networks and Framing
Tuesday 9 February | Benedetta Voltolini, Maastricht University
Wednesday 3 February | Jonathan Hill, King's College London
Democratisation in the Maghreb
Beyond the "Tunisian Exception": (Un)changing politics and social movements
Tuesday 2 February | Choukri Hmed, Paris Dauphine University
International Military Intervention and the Politics of Iraq
Wednesday 27 January | Toby Dodge, LSE
How the West Undermined Women's Rights in the Arab World
Wednesday 20 January | Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick
Muted Modernists: The Struggle over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia
Thursday 14 January | Madawi Al-Rasheed, LSE
Kuwait Programme Seminar
The Arab World at the Crossroads: Collapse or Reform?
Tuesday 12 January | Shafeeq Ghabra, Kuwait University