Past Events 2024
As part of the LSE MEC's
Bridging Identities: The Cultural Odyssey of Kurdistani Jews (Webinar)
Monday 2 December | 16:00 - 17:00 GMT | Bahar Baser, Durham University; Duygu Atlas; Mesut Alp; Moayed Assaf
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Healthcare Under Conflict in Sudan
Monday 25 November | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Ibrahim Bani, Yale University; Eva Khair, Sudan Transnational Consortium; Majdi Osman, Nubia Health; Nahid Toubia, Institute for Reproductive Health and Rights of Sudan
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The Academic Question of Palestine (Special Issue Launch)
Thursday 21 November | 17:30 - 18:45 GMT | Walaa Alqaisiya, LSE Middle East Centre; Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Texas Tech University; Dasha M, Independent Researcher; Nicola Perugini, University of Edinburgh; Lara Sheehi, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies; Anna Younes, Independent Researcher
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Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Iraq, 2003–2023 (Book Launch)
Wednesday 13 November | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Sana Murrani, University of Plymouth; Balsam Mustafa, Cardiff University; Michael Mason, LSE Middle East Centre
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Making Sense of the Arab State (Book Launch)
Thursday 7 November | 18:00 - 19:30 GMT | Lisa Anderson, Columbia University; Steven Heydemann, Smith College; Salwa Ismail, SOAS; Marc Lynch, The George Washington University
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As part of LSE's
Monday 4 November | 18:30 - 19:30 GMT | Jim Muir, Journalist
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Co-organised with the
Department of International Relations, LSE
Tuesday 22 October | 18:30 - 20:00 BST | Narges Bajoghli & Vali Nasr, Johns Hopkins University, Sanam Vakil, Chatham House
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Co-organised with the
Department of Geography and Environment, LSE
An Archival History of Jordan’s Nature Reserves: Conservation, Racial Science and National Identity
Tuesday 15 October | 18:00 - 19:00 BST | Olivia Mason, Newcastle University; Frederick Wojnarowski, Department of Anthropology, LSE
Israel, Gaza and the Wider Regional Conflict: Assessing the Probability of a Broader War
Wednesday 9 October | 18:00 - 19:30 BST | Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick; Mohammad Ali Shabani, Amwaj Media & Yezid Sayigh, Carnegie Middle East Center
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Student Careers Panel & Reception
Thursday 3 October | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Richard Barltrop, UN Consultant; Nada Bashir, Journalist, CNN; Alexandra Gomes, Research Officer, LSE Cities; Mina Toksoz, International Economist
Strategy and Domestic Politics in Israeli Foreign Policy: From the End of the Cold War to the 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War
Thursday 20 June | 18:00 - 19:15 BST | Amnon Aran, City, University of London
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As part of the
The Drama of Displacement: The Journey of a Syrian Refugee through Theatre
Thursday 13 June | 18:00 - 19:30 BST | Nesrin Alrefaai, LSE Middle East Centre; Matthew Spangler, San José State University in California
Co-hosted with
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Revolution of Things: Islamism and post-Islamism of objects in Iran
Monday 10 June | 15:00 - 16:30 BST | Kusha Sefat, University of Tehran; James Caron, SOAS
As part of the LSE MEC's
Women Fighters in the Kurdish National Movement: Transforming Gender Politics and the PKK
Thursday 6 June | 17:00 - 18:00 BST | Mustafa Kemal Topal, Roskilde University in Denmark
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Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East
Tuesday 4 June | 18:00 - 19:00 BST | Christopher Phillips, Queen Mary, University of London; Faisal Al Yafai, New Lines Magazine
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The Palestinian University and Scholasticide
Tuesday 28 May | 16:00 - 17:00 BST | Ahmed Abu Shaban, Al-Azhar University — Gaza; Esmat Elhalaby, University of Toronto
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Kurdish Studies Conference, 22-23 May 2024
This interdisciplinary event builds on the inaugural conference at LSE in 2023 and is organised by the Kurdish Studies Series at the LSE Middle East Centre and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield.
Industrial Policy in Turkey: Rise, Retreat and Return (Book Launch)
Monday 20 May | 16:00 - 17:00 BST | William Hale, SOAS; Mustafa Kutlay, City, University of London; Mina Toksoz, Author and International Economist
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13 Years After the Arab Spring: What are the Chances for Legitimate Constitutions in the Arab World?
Monday 25 March | 17:15 - 18:30 GMT | Nathan J. Brown, Georgetown University; Tamara Khoury, IE University; Azza Kamel Maghur, Lawyer and Human Rights Activist
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Navigating the Crisis: Yemen 10 Years On
Wednesday 13 March | 17:00 - 18:00 GMT | Ahmed Al Khameri, Chemonics; Marwa Baabbad, Yemen Policy Centre; Andreas Krieg, KCL
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Co-organised with the
, Department of Government, LSE
Conquests and Rents: A Political Economy of Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies (Webinar)
Tuesday 12 March | 16:00 - 17:00 GMT | Faisal Z. Ahmed, Wellesley College
Co-organised with
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies
The Civil War in Syria: Prospects for Peace and the Role of External Actors
Thursday 7 March | 17:30 - 19:00 GMT | Soli Özel, Istanbul Kadir Has University; Selin Nasi & Rim Turkmani, LSE
Iranian Kurdistan Since 1979 Workshop, Wednesday 6 March 2024
This workshop brought together scholars from across disciplines to explore contemporary Iranian or ‘Rojhelati’ Kurdistan.
Co-organised with the
LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa
Political Elites, Civil Society and the Future of Sudan
Tuesday 5 March | 18:00 - 19:30 GMT | Mai Hassan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Kholood Khair, Confluence Advisory
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Social Media Influencing in the City of Likes: Dubai and the Postdigital Condition
Tuesday 27 February | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Zoe Hurley, Zayed University; Tariq Elyas, King Abdulaziz University; Sarah Hopkyns, University of St Andrews
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As part of the
Società Italiana di Studi sul Medio Oriente (SeSaMO)
event series
Women in Academia & Research: Perspectives from Iran, Saudi Arabia & Kuwait (Webinar)
Tuesday 20 February | 16:00 - 17:00 GMT | Bibi Alajmi, Kuwait University; Hanaa Almoaibed, LSE Middle East Centre; Anahita Motazed Rad, Department of International Relations, LSE
In partnership with Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)
Gender, Technology, and Digital Cultures in the Middle East, 18-19 February, 2024
The Middle Eastern Studies Department at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), in partnership with the LSE Middle East Center, is organizing the second edition of its two-day conference in Doha, Qatar.
Translating the Language of the Syrian Revolution
Tuesday 13 February | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Eylaf Bader Eddin, Forum Transregionale Studien
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Co-organised with the
LSE Department of Geography and Environment
The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt
Wednesday 7 February | 18:30 - 20:00 GMT | Harry Pettit, Radboud University Nijmegen; Salwa Ismail, SOAS; Jo Littler, Goldsmiths, University of London; Tatiana Thieme, UCL
Artificial Intelligence and Development in MENA: Inclusion or Inequality?
Thursday 1 February | 17:00 - 18:00 GMT | Nagla Rizk, American University in Cairo
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