Past Events 2023
As part of the MEC's
Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey
Thursday 30 November | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Marlene Schäfers, Utrecht University
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Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region
Thursday 23 November | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Hamza Hamouchene & Katie Sandwell, Transnational Institute
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The Soil and The Sea (Film Screening and Q&A)
Tuesday 14 November | 18:00 - 20:00 GMT | Daniele Rugo, Director & Carmen Hassoun Abou Jaoudé, Producer
The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine
Thursday 9 November | 18:00 - 19:30 GMT | Hazem Jamjoum, New York University; Bashir Abu-Manneh, University of Kent
Broken Bonds: The Existential Crisis of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, 2013–22
Tuesday 24 October | 18:00 - 19:00 BST | Abdelrahman Ayyash, Century International; Amr ElAfifi, Freedom Initiative
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A New Diaspora of Saudi Exiles: Challenging Repression from Abroad
Thursday 19 October | 17:30 - 18:30 BST | Madawi Al-Rasheed, LSE Middle East Centre
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Student Careers Panel & Reception
Tuesday 10 October | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Arda Bilgen, LSE Middle East Centre; Marwa Baabbad, Yemen Policy Centre; Jack Sproson, Guernica 37 Chambers
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As part of the MEC's
Art and Activism in Iraqi Kurdistan: Feminist Fault Lines, Body Politics and the Struggle for Space
Thursday 5 October | 18:00 - 19:00 BST | Isabel Käser, LSE Middle East Centre; Houzan Mahmoud, Culture Project; Müjge Küçükkeleş, SOAS
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Charity in Saudi Arabia: Civil Society under Authoritarianism
Tuesday 13 June | 17:00 - 18:00 BST | Nora Derbal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hanaa Almoaibed, LSE Middle East Centre; Steffen Hertog, LSE
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Changing Lives in the Middle East: cinematic responses
Monday 12 June | 18:15 - 19:45 BST | Amira Louadah & Suzannah Mirghani, Filmmakers
Ecologies of Fragile Landscapes: Water, Waste and Toxicity in the Middle East, Friday 9 June 2023
This workshop will address the contemporary proliferation of 'fragile landscapes' in the Middle East and beyond, including the Eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea Region, and the Caucasus.
Protectors of the State? The Popular Mobilisation Forces During the 2022 Post-Election Crisis
Thursday 25 May | 17:30 - 18:30 BST | Simona Foltyn, Journalist and Filmmaker
Ruptured Domesticity: mapping spaces of refuge in Iraq
How do people who have experienced war, trauma and loss, create spaces of refuge in violated homes and cities? Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, Dr Sana Murrani maps a visual archive exploring the ingenious everyday spatial practices of 15 Iraqis from the north to the south of the country between 2003 and 2020.
The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East
Wednesday 10 May | 17:30 - 18:30 BST | Jamie Allinson, University of Edinburgh; Ala'a Shehabi, UCL; Charles Tripp, SOAS
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Israel's Covert Diplomacy in the Middle East
Thursday 4 May | 17:30 - 18:30 BST | Elie Podeh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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The History and Development of Kurdish Studies with Professor Martin van Bruinessen (Lecture & Reception)
Monday 24 April | 16:00 - 18:30 BST | Martin van Bruinessen, Utrecht University; Zeynep Kaya, LSE Middle East Centre
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Kurdish Studies Conference, 24-25 April 2023
This conference marks the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Kurdish Studies Series at the Middle East Centre and welcomes paper submissions with social sciences disciplinary approaches to any aspect of Kurdish studies.
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Ruptured Domesticity Exhibition Opening & Reception: In Conversation with Sana Murrani
Monday 3 April | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Sana Murrani, University of Plymouth; Ammar Azzouz, University of Oxford; Dena Qaddumi, LSE
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Collecting Traces for Future Struggles: Archiving in Times of Revolts
Monday 27 March | 17:30 - 18:30 BST | Leyla Dakhli, French Center for National Research; Sara Salem & Mai Taha, LSE
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Hope Denied: Iraq's Young People Reflect on 20 Years Since the Invasion
Monday 13 March | 18:00 - 19:30 GMT | Faris Nadhmi, Salahaddin University; Haider Kareem, IQ Peace Centre; Marwa Abdel Ridah, Civic Activist and Lawyer; Noor Al Huda Saad Abdullah, Researcher and Political Activist
Abu Dhabi (Dis)connected: An Evening of Art and Research
Friday 10 March | 17:00 - 20:00 GMT | Alexandra Gomes, LSE Cities; Apostolos Kyriazis, Abu Dhabi University; Clémence Montagne, Care Design Lab; Peter Schwinger
A Vocabulary in Upheaval: Keywords in Contemporary Syrian Political Culture
Thursday 9 March | 17:30 - 18:30 GMT | Emma Aubin-Boltanski, EHESS; Eylaf Bader Eddin, EUME; Razan Ghazzawi, EUME; Omar Al-Ghazzi, LSE
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The Politics of Representation: Feminist Media Studies in the Middle East (Webinar)
Wednesday 8 March | 16:00 - 17:30 GMT | Dalia Said Mostafa, Amal Al-Malki & Marc Owen Jones, Hamad Bin Khalifa University; Polly Withers, LSE Middle East Centre
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Turkish Politics and ‘The People’: Mass Mobilisation and Populism (Book Launch)
Monday 6 March | 17:30 - 18:30 GMT | Bahar Baser, Durham University; Dimitar Bechev, University of Oxford; Spyros A. Sofos, LSE Middle East Centre
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The Politics of the Turkey/Syria Earthquake: responses and aftermath
Thursday 2 March | 18:00 - 19:30 GMT | Karabekir Akkoyunlu, SOAS; Hişyar Özsoy, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP); Rim Turkmani, LSE IDEAS; Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)
Tunisia's Economic Development: Why Better than Most of the Middle East but Not East Asia (Webinar)
Monday 6 February | 16:00 - 17:00 GMT | Mustapha K. Nabli, Economist; Jeffrey B. Nugent, University of Southern California; Leila Baghdadi, University of Tunis; Mohamed Ali Marouani, Université Paris1-Panthéon-Sorbonne; Hassan Hakimian, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
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