Past Events 2019
Tuesday 3 December | 18:00 - 19:30 | Ali Al-Mawlawi, Al-Bayan Centre, Toby Dodge, LSE; Alia Moubayed
Thursday 28 November | 17:30 - 19:00 | Zeynep Kaya, LSE Middle East Centre
Thursday 21 November | 16:30 - 18:00 | Bahar Baser, Coventry University; Yasin Duman, Coventry University; Francis O'Connor, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt; Mark Sinan Winrow, LSE; Begum Zorlu, City, University of London
Current Developments in North and East Syria with Ilham Ehmed
Tuesday 12 November | 16:00 - 17:00 | Ilham Ehmed, Syrian Decmoratic Council
Monday 11 November | 18:00 - 19:30 | Alain Gresh, Publication Director, Orient XXI
Monday 4 November | 18:00 - 19:30 | Sophie Chamas, SOAS; Jamil Mouawad, AUB; Hicham Safieddine, KCL
Tuesday 8 October | 18:00 –19:30 | Güley Bor, International Lawyer, Researcher and Consultant; Dr. Ali Akram Al-Bayati, Founder and President of Turkmen Rescue Foundation
"I am the Revolution: Film Screening"
Thursday 3 October | 17:00 - 19:00 | Benedetta Argentieri; Independent Journalist and Director, Elif Sarican; Student and Kurdish Activist
Thursday 5 September | 16:00 –17:30 | Wladimir van Wilgenburg, Journalist and Independent Researcher
A Fragmented Landscape: Barriers to Independent Media in Iraq
Tuesday 11 June | 18:00 - 19:30 | Aida Al-Kaisy, SOAS University of London
Hosted by the Centre for Women Peace and Security and LSE Middle East Centre
A Feminist Perspective of the Syrian Political Process
Monday 10 June | 18:30 -20:00 | Kholoud Mansour, Wejdan Nassif and Lina Wafai, Syrian Women’s Political Movement (SWPM)
The Kurdish Women’s Movement: On Revolution, Militarism and Body Politics
Tuesday 4 June | 16:00 - 17:30 | Isabel Käser, Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS University of London
Wednesday 29 May | 18:30 - 20:00 | Ervand Abrahamian, Baruch College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and Middle East Centre at LSE
Paving the Way: The politics of Turkey’s central government spending under AKP rule
Thursday 23 May | 16:00 –17:30 | Davide Luca, Cambridge University and LSE Middle East Centre
Tuesday 14 May | 16:30–18:00 | Polly Withers, LSE
Friday, 3 May | 13:00–15:00 | Hugh Roberts, Tufts University.
Thursday 2 May | 15:00–16:30 | Sara Salem, LSE
Wednesday 1 May | 18:00–19:30 | Jessica Watkins, LSE Middle East Centre
Hosted by Department of Geography and Environment, Department of Sociology and the Middle East Centre at LSE
Displaceability: A New Foundation of Urban Citizenship?
Thursday 21 March | 16:00 - 17:30 | Oren Yiftachel, Ben-Gurion University, Israel and Visiting Leverhulme Professor, UCL, UK
Thursday 21 March | 16:00 - 17:30 | Shamel Azmeh, University of Manchester and LSE Middle East Centre; Abeer Elshennawy, The American University in Cairo.
Hosted by Society for Algerian Studies and Middle East Centre
Tuesday 19 March | 18:00 - 19:30 | Jessica Northey, Coventry University
Monday 18 March | 17:15 - 19:15 | Brecht de Smet, Ghent University
Hosted by LSE Cities and the Middle East Centre
Contradictions in Contemporary Urbanisation: Cities of the Arabian Peninsula
Monday 11 March | 18:30 - 20:00 | Harvey Molotoch, New York University; Davide Ponzini, Politecnico di Milano; Fran Tonkiss, LSE
Two-Day Workshop: Thursday 7 – Friday 8 March
Hosted by BRISMES and the Middle East Centre
Thursday 7 March | 17:15 - 18:30 | Omar Al-Ghazzi, LSE; Sophie Rudland, IB Tauris; Priscilla Toffano, LSE Middle East Centre and IMF; Angeline Turner, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Friday 1 March | 08:30–17:00
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Thursday 28 February | 16:00–17:30 | Yoav Kapshuk, Kinneret College
Tuesday 26 February | 18:30–20:00 | Mehammed Mack, Smith College; Cenk Ozbay, Sabanci University; Roula Seghaier, Kohl Journal; Silvia Quattrini, Chouf.
Wednesday 13 February | 18:30–20:00 | Yezid Sayigh, Carnegie Middle East Center
Tuesday 12 February | 18:00–19:30 | Joshka Wessels, Lund University
Tuesday 5 February | 18:00-19:30 | Mark Zeitoun, University of East Anglia
Monday 4 February | 17:15-19:15 | Francesco de Lellis, University of Naples "L'Orientale"
Wednesday 30 January | 18:00–19:30 | Amal Jamal, Tel Aviv University
Tuesday 22 January | 18:00–19:30 | Ian Black, LSE Middle East Centre
Wednesday 16 January | 18:30–20:00 | Jim Muir, BBC News and LSE Middle East Centre