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2012

January

17/01/12
  • Can Asad Survive?
  • Patrick Seale

  • Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East in Transition: a new social economic and political landscape?

24/01/12
31/01/12
  • Libyan Revolution: Experiences and Future Challenges
  • Aref Ali Nayed, Ambassador of Libya to the United Arab Emirates

  • Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East in Transition: a new social economic and political landscape?

February

03/02/12
04/02/12
07/02/12
18/02/12
21/02/12
28/02/12

March

01/03/12
02/03/12
06/03/12
13/03/12
15/03/12
17/03/12
21/03/12
24/03/12
28/03/12
31/03/12

April

16/04/12
21/04/12
23/04/12
23/04/12
24/04/12
25/04/12
  • Iraqi refugees - no exit?
  • Philip Marfleet and Tahir Zaman, University of East London

  • Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) and London Middle East Institute Joint Lecture

26/04/12
30/04/12
  • Ain Zubaida: The Symbol of a Magnificent Legacy
  • Omar Abu-Rizaiza, King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah

  • A talk by Professor Abu-Rizaiza on Zubaida Al-Abbasi, who lived in Baghdad from AD 760 to 820, and her extraordinary contribution to the ancient engineering heritage of the region through her support of the Qanat (ain) system.

May

11/05/12
14/05/12
23/05/12

June

12/06/12
  • Salafi

  • Dir Karim El Shenawy (2012). Screening of Salafi, a BBC Arabic production that was shot in Egypt between August and December 2011 during the parliamentary elections.

19/06/12
25/06/12
26/06/12

September

01/09/12
17/09/12
18/09/12
  • Education: the Best Investment

  • A two-day conference convened by The British Egyptian Society together with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS and Cairo University to share the experience of Egypt and the UK in education and training and to develop initiatives for future collaborative projects.

23/09/12

October

06/10/12
09/10/12
  • Palestine Now: Writers Respond
  • With Bidisha, Rachel Shabi, Selma Dabbagh, Miranda Pennell and Naomi Foyle

  • Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.

12/10/12
16/10/12
23/10/12
25/10/12
  • Monthly Film Screening: KICK IN IRAN

  • Sara Khoshjamal-Fekri is the first female athlete from Iran to ever qualify for the Olympic Games. Her discipline is Taekwondo. KICK IN IRAN shows her arduous journey to Beijing 2008, a persistent struggle for self-determination and recognition in a society based on strict religious laws.

30/10/12
  • Islam, Gender and Reform in Oman
  • Khalid Al-Azri, Oxford University

  • Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.

30/10/12
31/10/12

November

02/11/12
06/11/12
13/11/12
16/11/12
19/11/12
20/11/12
20/11/12
21/11/12
22/11/12
  • Monthly Film Screening: 10 + 4

  • Mania Akbari's sequel to Abbas Kiarostami's 2002 arthouse hit Ten. As in the first installment, Akbari spends her screen time as an unnamed character, driving a car and conducting long conversations with passengers - including her son, her sister and others. Yet here, she's suffering from a terminal cancer that is slowly worming its way through her body.

23/11/12
23/11/12
27/11/12

December

04/12/12
  • The Sudanese breadbasket: Land and water grabs by Middle Eastern economies
  • Tony Allan, KCL and SOAS; Eckart Woertz, Princeton and Barcelona Centre for International Affairs; Harry Verhoeven, Oxford University; Martin Keulertz, KCL

  • Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.

05/12/12
06/12/12
  • Gaza's ordeal in historical perspective
  • Jean-Pierre Filiu, Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA)

  • A lecture by Jean-Pierre Filiu, historian and professor of Middle East Studies at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA). 

    Chair: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS

11/12/12