Past Events 2024

As part of the LSE MEC's Kurdish Studies Series

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

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 Public Lecture Programme

The 2024 Ian Black Memorial Lecture: A War Like No Other: Challenge and Change in Reporting Gaza

Monday 4 November | 18:30 - 19:30 GMT | Jim Muir, Journalist

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Co-organised with the Department of International Relations, LSE

How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare (Book Launch)

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

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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

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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 LSE Festival 2024

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 the Department of Sociology, LSE

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 Kurdish Studies Series

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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Co-organised with LSE IDEAS

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 Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Economy Seminar Series, 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.

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