Past Events 2013

MAR-04-12

Protest and Revolution Across the Arab World: Reflections Three Years On

Wednesday 4 December | Madawi Al-Rasheed, LSE; John Chalcraft, LSE; Ewan Stein, University of Edinburgh

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CE-02-12

US Foreign Policy and the Iranian Revolution: The Dynamics of Engagement and Strategic Alliance

Monday 2 December | Christian Emery, University of Plymouth

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AE-27-11

Iranian Foreign Policy after the Election of Hassan Rouhani

Wednesday 27 November | Anoush Ehteshami, Durham University

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LS-22-11

The Syrian Civil War: The Resilience of Civil Society

Friday 22 November | Lina Sinjab, BBC

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CS-11-11

Re-Negotiating the Terms of EU-Israel Partnership: Normative Power and International Law

Monday 11 November | Charles Shamas, Mattin Group

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RO-21-10

Modern Middle East Studies as a Distinct Intellectual Field

Monday 21 October | Roger Owen, Harvard University

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PD-16-10

The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring

Wednesday 16 October | Paul Danahar, BBC

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MAR-07-10

A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia

Monday 7 October | Madawi Al-Rasheed, LSE

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CS-02-10

Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East

Wednesday 2 October | Christopher Schroeder

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LH-08-05

The Gaza Kitchen: Documenting a culinary heritage and a food system under stress

Wednesday 8 May | Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt

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SMM-03-05

The Kurds and the Conflict in Syria

Friday 3 May | Saleh Muslim Mohamed, Democratic Union Party (PYD)

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KN-26-04

A Panel Discussion on Palestine

Friday 26 April | Karma Nabulsi, University of Oxford; Ilan Pappe, University of Exeter; Rosemary Hollis, City University; Peter Kosminsky, Director of ‘The Promise’

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SH-21-03

The Politics of Business in the Middle East After the Arab Spring

Thursday 21 March | Steffen Hertog, LSE; Giacomo Luciani, Science-Po; Marc Valeri, University of Exeter; and Khalid Almezaini, Qatar University

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AA-18-03

The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran

Monday 18 March | Ali Ansari, University of St Andrews

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RD-11-03

Energy Security and Shifting Global Power

Monday 11 March | Roland Dannreuther, University of Westminster

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HK-04-03

Revolution as Gambling: Egypt Under the Muslim Brotherhood

Monday 4 March | Hazem Kandil, Cambridge University

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FG-21-02

The New Middle East: Protest and Revolution in the Arab World

Thursday 21 February | Fawaz Gerges, LSE

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FT-18-02

In the Eye of the Storm: The History of Lebanon Revisited

Monday 18 February | Fawwaz Traboulsi, American University of Beirut

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PB-08-02

Phyllis Bennis: In Conversation with Fawaz Gerges

Friday 8 February | Phyllis Bennis, New Internationalism Project, IPS

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VB-28-01

Rethinking Diffusion: 1989, the Colour Revolutions, and the Arab Uprisings

Monday 4 February | Valerie Bunce, Cornell University

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RA-28-01
Co-organised with the Society for Algerian Studies

Colonial Control in Algeria: the French Security and Intelligence Services between the Two World Wars

Monday 28 January | Rabah Aissaoui, University of Leicester

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TT-23-01

Is Jordan Immune to the Arab Spring Uprisings?

Wednesday 23 January | Tariq Tell, American University of Beirut

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BHA-16-01

Islam and the Politics of Resistance: The Case of Women in Iran

Wednesday 16 January | Haleh Afshar, House of Lords

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