Past Events 2025
Israeli Domestic Politics since October 7
Thursday 27 November | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Alona Ferber, Prospect Magazine; Yossi Mekelberg, Chatham House; Yair Wallach, SOAS
Building Towards Justice: Recent European Trials of ISIL Members for Crimes Against Yazidis
Wednesday 19 November | 17:00 - 18:00 GMT | Sareta Ashraph, Barrister & Roza Qaidi, Center for Justice and Accountability
Israeli Domestic Politics since October 7
Monday 17 November | 16:00 - 17:00 GMT | Miriyam Aouragh, University of Westminster; Mohamed Daadaoui, Oklahoma City University; Michael J. Willis, University of Oxford
Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa (Webinar)
Thursday 13 November | 16:00 - 17:00 GMT | Guilain Denoeux, Colby College & Robert Springborg, Simon Fraser University
The 2025 Ian Black Memorial Lecture: Syria after Assad: a reporter’s view on a nation in transition
As part of LSE's Public Lecture Programme
Monday 3 November | 18:30 - 20:00 GMT | Raya Jalabi, Financial Times
Student Careers Panel & Reception
Thursday 2 October | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Eyad Hamid, Syrian Legal Development Programme; Tiziana Leone, LSE; Clare Woodcraft, University of Cambridge
The 2025 Ian Black Memorial Lecture: Syria after Assad: a reporter’s view on a nation in transition
This interdisciplinary event builds on the conferences held at Sheffield in 2024 and 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.
Co-organised with the
Department of Economic History
Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa (Webinar)
Thursday 29 March | 18:00 - 19:30 BST | Mohamed Saleh, LSE
Co-organised with the Department of Anthropology
Paths Made by Walking: The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran
Tuesday 27 May | 17:00 - 18:00 BST | Amina Tawasil, Columbia University
Kurdish Justice in Northeast Syria
Thursday 22 May | 18:00 - 19:00 BST | René Provost, McGill University
Cooling Bahrain: How Air-Conditioning Changed Everything (Webinar)
Tuesday 13 May | 16:00 - 17:00 BST | Marwa Koheji, New York University Abu Dhabi
Power, Resistance, Ideology and the State: Charles Tripp and the Comparative Politics of the Middle East
Thursday 8 May | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Ali M. Ansari, University of St Andrews; Eberhard Kienle, SciencesPo Paris; Daniel Neep, The George Washington University; Evaleila Pesaran, University of Cambridge
From Past and Present to Future: Finding a Positive Path between Ideals and Possibilities in Yemen
Thursday 24 April | 17:30 - 19:00 BST | Helen Lackner, Writer and Researcher
Listen on SoundCloud
Co-organised with the
Department of International Development
Women and Work in MENA And South Asia: Puzzles, Paradoxes and Policy Challenges
Tuesday 25 March | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Naila Kabeer, LSE & Ragui Assaad, University of Minnesota
Listen on SoundCloud
Watch on YouTube
Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey: Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State (Book Launch)
Tuesday 18 March | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Seçkin Sertdemir, LSE & Zerrin Özlem Biner, SOAS
Listen on SoundCloud
Co-organised with the
The Time beneath the Concrete: Palestine between Camp and Colony (Book Launch)
Thursday 13 March | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Nasser Abourahme, Bowdoin College & Muna Dajani, LSE Middle East Centre
Understanding Hamas And Why That Matters (Book Launch)
Monday 10 March | 18:30 - 19:30 GMT | Catherine Charrett, University of Westminster; Helena Cobban, Just World Education; Jeroen Gunning, LSE Middle East Centre; Mouin Rabbani, Jadaliyya
Co-organised with the
LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa
Empowering Women in Agriculture: Navigating Peace, Conflict, and Food Security Conference, Saturday 8 March
This International Women’s Day 2025 Conference will platform the diverse voices of women who work or are involved in the agricultural sector in Africa, and who are leading the way within their own communities and internationally to make the sector sustainable.
As part of the
LSE MEC's Paper Series
Iraq’s Economy between the US and Iran: Perceptions and Realities
Thursday 6 March | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Ahmed Tabaqchali, LSE Middle East Centre
Listen on SoundCloud
Watch on YouTube
The Future of Power-Sharing in Iraq: Youth Perspectives
Monday 24 February | 17:30 - 19:00 GMT | Oula Kadhum, SOAS; Khogir Mohammed, Middle East Research Institute; Muhanad Seloom, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
As part of the
The Struggles of Labour Mobilisation in Lebanon and Iraq (Paper Launch)
Thursday 20 February | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Anne Kirstine Rønn, LSE Middle East Centre; Fuad Musallam, University of Birmingham; Razaw Salihy, Amnesty International
Listen on SoundCloud
Co-organised with
Sh'hili (Film Screening and Director Q&A)
Wednesday 12 February | 18:00 - 20:00 GMT | Habib Ayeb, University Paris 8; Muna Abbas, The Asfari Foundation; Ray Bush, University of Leeds
As part of the LSE MEC's
Iranian Kurdistan Under the Islamic Republic: Change, Revolution, and Resistance(Book Launch)
Monday 3 February | 17:30 - 18:30 GMT | Marouf Cabi, LSE Middle East Centre; Kamran Matin, University of Sussex
Listen on SoundCloud
Watch on YouTube
Trump's Second Term and the Middle East
Thursday 30 January | 18:00 - 19:30 GMT | Gilbert Achcar, SOAS; Tom Bateman, BBC; Sharri Plonski, Queen Mary University of London; Mezna Qato, University of Cambridge
Listen on SoundCloud
From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics (Book Launch)
Wednesday 22 January | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Jerome Drevon, International Crisis Group; Haid Haid, Chatham House; Raihan Ismail, University of Oxford
Listen on SoundCloud
Watch on YouTube