Past Events 2017
Bombs, Bridges, and Biography: Lessons for the Present from the Father of Algeria?
Wednesday 6 December | Tom Woerner-Powell, University of Manchester
Thursday 30 November
Wednesday 29 November | Ian Black, LSE; Tom Phillips, RCDS
Kuwait Programme Seminar
Monday 13 November | Lolwah Alkhater, University of Oxford
Monday 6 November | Karl reMarks
Co-Organised by the Society for Algerian Studies
Wednesday 18 October | Michael Willis, University of Oxford
Trump and the Middle East: Personality, Ideology and Militarisation
Wednesday 11 October | Toby Dodge, LSE
Task Force on the Future of Iraq: Achieving Long-Term Stability to Ensure the Defeat of ISIS
Tuesday 27 June | Toby Dodge, LSE; Nussaibah Younis, Chatham House; Christine van den Toorn, IRIS
Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
The Calculus of Dissidence: The FFS and the Failure of Opposition in Algeria
Tuesday 30 May | Hugh Roberts, Tufts University
Sectarianisation: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East
Monday 8 May | Danny Postel, Northwestern University; Madawi Al-Rasheed, LSE Middle East Centre; Nader Hashemi, University of Denver; Toby Matthiesen, University of Oxford; Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, University of Oxford
Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Seminar
Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse in Syria: A Social-Institutionalist Explanation
Tuesday 2 May | Thomas Pierret, University of Edinburgh
Kuwait Programme Seminar
The Paris Climate Change Agreement and The GCC
Tuesday 25 April | Aisha Al-Sarihi, LSE Kuwait Programme
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The Evolution of Ennahdha in Tunisia: In Conversation with Sheikh Rached Ghannouchi
Thursday 20 April | Sheikh Rached Ghannouchi, Ennahdha Party
Kuwait Programme Seminar
Dispelling Stereotypes: Women's Rights in the Gulf States
Wednesday 22 March | Lulu al-Sabah, Abolish Article 153; Hatoon al-Fassi, Qatar University
Iran and the Nuclear Programme: A Political and Technical Assessment
Monday 13 March | Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, Royal United Services Institute
Putting Gender at the Centre: The Feminist Turn in the Kurdish Political Movement
Tuesday 7 March | Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS; Latif Tas, SOAS
co-hosted with the Gender Institute and LSE Literary Festival
Where are the Women in Today's Islamic World?
Saturday 25 February | Elif Shafak
‘This is our Call of Duty’: Ideology, History and Resistant Videogames in the Middle East
Wednesday 22 February | Dima Saber, Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research
co-hosted with the LSE Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa
Arab National Media and Political Change
Thursday 9 February | Fatima El-Issawi, LSE
Gender Equality and the Quest for Statehood in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Wednesday 8 February | Zeynep Kaya, LSE
Quest for Authority: The Presidency and its Standing in the Islamic Republic
Tuesday 31 January | Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, University of Manchester
The Politics of Selective Liberalisation: Cronyism and Trade Protection in Egypt
Wednesday 25 January | Ferdinand Eibl, King's College London
Hosted by BRISMES and the Middle East Centre
Middle East Careers
Wednesday 18 January | Nick Alton, Dania Akkad, Courtney Freer, Mina Toksoz
Kuwait Programme Seminar
The Merchant Elite and Parliamentary Politics in Kuwait
Tuesday 17 January | Anastasia Nosova, LSE
Hosted by the Middle East Centre and the Society for Algerian Studies
Revolution and Authoritarianism in North Africa
Monday 16 January | Frederic Volpi, University of St Andrews
Hosted by LSE Works and the Middle East Centre
Documenting Genocide: Survey Evidence on ISIS Violence Against Yazidis
Wednesday 11 January | Valeria Cetorelli, LSE