Event Series
Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA
Building on the online network, the Centre organised regular discussion-based seminars inviting academics to present their work. Papers were circulated in advance and briefly presented at the start, followed by questions and comments from the audience. The seminar series is no longer running as of 2021.
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Past Events and Podcasts
- Strikes, Riots and Laughter: Egypt's 1918 Peasant Insurrection Wednesday 2 May | Alia Mosallam, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin
- In the Name of Modernity: Urban Expansion and Land Grabs in Morocco
Tuesday 16 January | Soraya El Kahlaoui, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study
- Redefining the Political: The Ultras Football 'Movement' in Egypt
Tuesday 17 October | Rabab El-Mahdi, American University in Cairo - The Calculus of Dissidence: The Socialist Forces Front and the Failure of Opposition in Algeria
Tuesday 30 May 2017 | Hugh Roberts, Tufts University - Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse in Syria: A Social-Institutionalist Explanation
Tuesday 2 May 2017 | Thomas Pierret, University of Edinburgh - Putting Gender at the Centre: The Feminist Turn in the Kurdish Political Movement
Tuesday 7 March 2017 | Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS; Latif Tas, SOAS - Let's Rock/Rap it! Music as Collective Action: The Case of the Arab Spring
Tuesday 11 October 2016 | Amina Boubia, Sciences Po Centre for International Studies - Reassembling the Spatial: Place-and-World Making as Social Movement Practice in Jordan and Palestine
Tuesday 26 April 2016 | Christopher Parker, Ghent University - Why Some Contentious Movements Fail: The Case of the Syrian Opposition
Tuesday 15 March 2016 | Dr Jasmine Gani, University of St Andrews
- Bahraini Activism in Exile: Legacies and Revolutionary Ruptures
Wednesday 3 June 2015 | Claire Beaugrand, Institut Français du Proche Orient - How Self-Limited Mobilisation Works: the case of Morocco
Wednesday 20 May 2015 | Dr Frédéric Vairel, University of Ottawa - Of Regime and Movements: Authoritarian Reform and the 2011 Popular Uprisings in Morocco
Tuesday 19 May 2015 | Dr Frédéric Vairel, University of Ottawa - The Non-Contentious Politics of Labour Protests in Egypt
Wednesday 25 February 2015 | Dr Marie Duboc, University of Tübingen - Theorising Revolution, Anticipating Civil War: Class, State and Political Practice in 1960s Lebanon
Wednesday 21 January 2015 | Dr Fadi Bardawil, University of North Carolina - Workers in the Arab Uprisings: Social Movement Theory, Political Economy and Class
Wednesday 5 November 2014 | Professor Joel Beinin, Stanford University - High-Risk Activism and Popular Struggle against the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank
Tuesday 4 November 2014 | Professor Joel Beinin, Stanford University - Will the Real Palestinian Peasantry Please Sit Down? Towards a New History of British Rule in Palestine, 1917–1936
Tuesday 20 May 2014 | Dr Charles Anderson, Western Washington University - New Social Movements and the Question of Organisation During Revolutionary Processes
Tuesday 6 May 2014 | Dr Maha Abdelrahman, University of Cambridge - The Politics of the Urban Everyday in the Arab Revolutions
Wednesday 12 February 2014 | Professor Salwa Ismail, SOAS