Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East
Tuesdays, 5.30pm (unless stated otherwise), Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), SOAS
All lectures in this series are free and open to all
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Critical Reflections on Middle East Economics
Hassan Hakimian (HBKU and SOAS)
The knowledge of Middle Eastern economies as an autonomous field is of relatively recent origins and has evolved in uneven ways. Unlike some other regions, which have played a more active role in the genesis or evolution of development theory and practice (notably Latin America), the contribution of Middle Eastern economies has been more limited and to a large extent confined to recent decades.
12 October 2021, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMWhat does a world with less water mean for the Middle East?
Peter Schwartzstein (journalist)
As the driest part of the planet, the Middle East never had much water to begin with. But a potent combination of climate shocks, rampant mismanagement, and increasing demand is pushing the region to the brink.
4 May 2021, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMTurkey in the Global Economy: Between Neoliberalism and Authoritarian Populism, 2000-2020
Bülent Gökay (Keele University)
Turkey in the Global Economy examines the transformation of Turkey over the past two decades, from an underdeveloped and weak economic power into an important regional player with a dynamic economy in global networks.
23 March 2021, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Arab and the Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond
Bashir Bashir (Open University of Israel) and Leila Farsakh (University of Massachusetts Boston)
This book talk discusses the attempts of leading scholars to consider how the “Jewish Question” and the “Arab Question” are entangled historically and in the present day.
16 March 2021, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMIran: 25 years, 45 visits, A Journey Behind the Headlines: An illustrated talk by Scott Peterson
Scott Peterson
Scott Peterson is the senior Middle East correspondent, covering the Middle East for the Monitor from London with a special focus on Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan.
9 March 2021, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Arab Winter: Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists
Stephen J. King (Georgetown University)
This unique comparative analysis of countries before, during and after the Arab Spring seeks to explain the divergent outcomes, disappointing and even harrowing results of efforts to overcome democratic consolidation challenges, from the tentative democracy in Tunisia to the emergence of the Islamic State, and civil war and authoritarian retrenchment everywhere else.
2 March 2021, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMEleven Wars against Palestinians: How Palestinians are coping with their Elimination
Invoking the myth of Palestine as "a land without a people” to justify its project, Zionism physically destroyed most of Palestine and depopulated it from most of its native population to replace them with settlers, coming mostly from Europe initially.
23 February 2021, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSeeking Legitimacy: Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women's Rights
Aili Mari Tripp (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Aili Mari Tripp explains why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria embraced more extensive legal reforms of women's rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts.
9 February 2021, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMMoroccan Cinema Uncut: Decentred Voices, Transnational Perspectives
Will Higbee (University of Exeter), Florence Martin (Goucher College), Jamal Bahmad (Mohammed V University)
This is the first book length study to consider the transnational dimension of Moroccan cinema. It argues that Moroccan cinema has de-orbited from Francophone cinema and Morocco's postcolonial legacy to become a transnational cinema.
2 February 2021, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMMapping Kurdistan: Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism
Zeynep Kaya (SOAS)
Since the early twentieth-century, Kurds have challenged the borders and national identities of the states they inhabit.
26 January 2021, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMReluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
Kelsey Norman (Baker Institute, Rice University)
Seeking to understand why host states treat migrants and refugees inclusively, exclusively, or without any direct engagement, Kelsey Norman offers this original, comparative analysis of the politics of asylum seeking and migration in the Middle East and North Africa.
19 January 2021, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMNeither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University)
Making the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, this book calls us to rethink political violence and reimagine political community beyond majorities and minorities.
12 January 2021, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMIran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic
Narges Bajoghli (Johns Hopkins University)
An inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic.
15 December 2020, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMStealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture shaped Europe
Diana Darke (author)
This book uncovers a long yet often overlooked history of architectural ‘borrowing’, revealing the Arab and Islamic roots of Europe’s architectural heritage.
8 December 2020, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMGermany and Israel: Whitewashing and Statebuilding
Daniel Marwecki (Hong Kong University)
According to common perception, the Federal Republic of Germany supported the formation of the Israeli state for moral reasons—to atone for its Nazi past—but did not play a significant role in the Arab–Israeli conflict. However, the historical record does not sustain this narrative.
1 December 2020, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMChina’s Engagement and Relations with Iran
Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
China has been leading the Middle East/West Asia’s ‘Asianization’ since the late 1990s and has emerged as the primary trading and investment partner of ME/WAsian countries. PRC-IRI relations in this process stand out for both geopolitical and ideo-political reasons.
24 November 2020, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMWomen, Writing and the Iraqi Ba'thist State: Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration
Hawraa Al-Hassan (University of Cambridge)
This book traces the turbulent history of Ba'thist discourses on women and state patronage of the novel, and explores various literary responses from a wide spectrum of Iraqi women writers.
17 November 2020, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMChina Straddling the Persian Gulf
Jonathan Fulton (Zayed University - Abu Dhabi, UAE)
China is a major economic actor in the Persian Gulf and its expansive Belt and Road Initiative ambitions add a strategic element. In an intensely competitive regional security environment, China has maintained an unusual approach, deepening ties with all Gulf states, perhaps best exemplified by its comprehensive strategic partnerships with Iran and its rivals Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
3 November 2020, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMCivil Society in Algeria: The Hirak, Non-violence and Youth Activism for Democracy
Jessica Ayesha Northey (Coventry University)
On 22 February 2019, Algeria saw the emergence of a peaceful movement for democracy, which brought ordinary people to the streets on an unprecedented scale. Known as the hirak, weekly marches of millions led to President Bouteflika standing down.
27 October 2020, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMLove and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri
Victoria Brittain (former foreign correspondent and Associate Foreign Editor of The Guardian)
The first book-length study of Mai Masri, one of the world's most well-known Arab women filmmakers.
13 October 2020, Virtual Event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMBook Launch: Political Economies of the Middle East and North Africa
Dr Robert Springborg
This book focuses on national and regional politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to explain why economies there are underperforming. Variations in performance are traced to historically rooted capacities of states.
10 March 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMDo the Women of ISIS Deserve Rights?
Azadeh Moaveni (International Crisis Group)
In her latest book, Guest House for Young Widows: Women of ISIS, Azadeh Moaveni looks at a cast of young women who in many instances left their comfortable lives behind to join the Islamic state.
25 February 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Iran-Iraq War and its Socio-Economic Effects
Professor Mohammad Farzanegan (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
This talk will be based on Professor Farzanegan's current research on the following two topics: 'The opportunity cost of the Islamic revolution and war for Iran' and 'Growing up in the Iran-Iraq war and preferences for strong defence'.
18 February 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMReligious Claims and Nationalism in "Secular" Zionism: Obscuring Settler Colonialism
Professor Nadim Rouhana (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University)
In this presentation Prof. Rouhana will examine how nationalism, religious claims, and settler colonialism enmesh within Zionism and demonstrate how their interaction played a major role for Israeli academia and politics in sidelining or obfuscating settler colonialism as an appropriate frame of analysis for Zionism’s encounter with the Palestinians.
4 February 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSyria after the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience
Dr Joseph Daher (University of Lausanne)
Syria has been at the centre of world news since 2011, following the beginnings of a popular uprising in the country and its subsequent violent repression.
28 January 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMWomen, Religion and the state in Israel
Professor Nira Yuval-Davis (SOAS)
The lecture outlines the Zionist project and its relationship with the Jewish religion and then how this was institutionalized and transformed in different periods in the history of the state of Israel, focusing on the transformation of Israel into an (atypical) neo-liberal state.
21 January 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMDraw Me a Revolution: Aesthetics of Solidarity in the Trenches of Arab Hanoi
Dr Zeina Maasri (University of Brighton)
Mobilised by radical networks of solidarity, stretching from Cuba, through Algeria and all the way to Vietnam, an anti-imperialist revolutionary subjectivity was being constituted through a global flow of discourses and associated translocal visuality.
14 January 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMCulture, Time and Publics in the Arab World: Media, Public Space and Temporality
Tarik Sabry, Omar al-Ghazzi, Helga Tawil-Souri and Ramy Aly
In this revealing new study, the authors preside over an original new exploration of Arab culture. They employ subjects as varied as anthropology, media studies, philosophy, political economy and cultural studies to illuminate the relationship between culture, time and publics in an Arab context, whilst also laying the foundations for a much more nuanced picture of Arab society.
7 January 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMPalestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Professor Nur Masalha (formerly, St. Mary's University, Twickenham)
In this talk, Professor Masalha will trace Palestine’s millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.
10 December 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMGender and the Entanglements of Power: The Politics of Stadium Access in Iran
Dr Nazanin Shahrokni (LSE)
While much has been written about the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution on life in Iran, discussions about the everyday life of Iranian women have been glaringly missing.
3 December 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMBanking on the state: the Financial Foundations of Lebanon
Dr Hicham Safieddine (Kings College London)
In 1943, Lebanon gained its formal political independence from France; only after two more decades did the country finally establish a national central bank. Inaugurated on April 1, 1964, the Banque du Liban (BDL) was billed by Lebanese authorities as the nation's primary symbol of economic sovereignty and as the last step towards full independence.
26 November 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMBook Launch - Contested Politics in Tunisia: Civil Society in a Post-Authoritarian State
Dr Edwige Fortier (Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
Several thousand new civil society organisations were legally established in Tunisia following the 2010–11 uprising that forced the long-serving dictator, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, from office.
19 November 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMBook Launch - Iran and Palestine: Past, Present, Future
Dr Seyed Ali Alavi (SOAS)
Examining the nature of relations between Iran and Palestine, this book investigates the relationship between state and authorities in the Middle East.
12 November 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe story of Palestine’s stonemasons and the building of Israel
Dr Andrew Ross (New York University)
Looking at the Palestinian–Israeli conflict in a new light, this book, largely based on field interviews in the region, asks how this record of labor and achievement can and should be recognized.
29 October 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMReconfiguring Security Landscapes: Evidence from the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Dr Tahani Mustafa (LSE)
This presentation evidences how programmes of internationally sponsored Security Sector Reform (SSR) alters security landscapes and transforms societal and political power apparatuses in its applied contexts, to the extent that, rather than creating a homogenous central state security apparatus, it instead often exacerbates socio-political divisions.
22 October 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMShooting a Revolution Visual Media and Warfare in Syria
Dr Donatella Della Ratta (John Cabot University, Rome)
From ISIS propaganda videos to popular regime-backed TV series and digital activism, the Syrian conflict has been dramatically affected by the production of media, at the same time generating in its turn an impressive visual culture.
15 October 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMGender, Sexuality and Conflict in Palestine
Dr. Wala’ al-Qaisiya (LSE)
Gender, Sexuality and Conflict in Palestine
8 October 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMTraces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism
Ronit Lentin (Trinity College Dublin) and Haim Bresheeth
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
19 March 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMEuropean policy on the Middle East: Spectator or actor?
Nicholas Westcott, Formerly Managing Director Middle East and North Africa, European External Action Service
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
12 March 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMHuman Rights in the MENA Region: Challenges and Opportunities
Mishana Hosseinioun (University of Oxford), Moataz El Fegiery (Front Line Defenders), Melek Saral (SOAS)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
5 March 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMFrench Republic, Islam and Muslims: What Goes Wrong?
Haoues Seniguer, Sciences Po Lyon and Le Laboratoire Triangle, UMR 5206, Lyon
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
26 February 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMAdam Hanieh (SOAS), Laleh Khalili (SOAS) and Sara Salem (LSE)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
19 February 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMNo Charge, no Trial: The Illegality of Israel's Use of Administrative Detention against Palestinians
Luigi Daniele (Nottingham Law School), Peter Langford (Edge Hill University) and Triestino Mariniello (Edge Hill University)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
29 January 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe History of the Huthi Conflict
Marieke Brandt, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
22 January 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMHamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance
Tareq Baconi, European Council on Foreign Relations
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
11 December 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMCold War in the Islamic World: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Struggle for Supremacy
Dilip Hiro, author
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
4 December 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMEthics as a Weapon of War: Militarism and Morality in Israel
James Eastwood (Queen Mary), Hagar Kotef (SOAS), Akanksha Mehta (Goldsmiths), Hedi Viterbo (University of Essex) and Nimer Sultany (SOAS)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
27 November 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMShari'a, dissection and justice in modern Egypt
Khaled Fahmy, University of Cambridge
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Annual Lecture. Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
20 November 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMPnina Werbner (Keele University), Claudia Liebelt (University of Bayreuth), Laura Ferrero (University of Turin), Deniz Kandiyoti (SOAS)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
13 November 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMMapping the Mediterranean by the Cartographers of Medieval Islamic Societies
Cyrus Alai
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
30 October 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMLimited Statehood in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
Ruth Hanau Santini, Università "L'Orientale"
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
16 October 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMPanel Discussion on the Iranian Economy and Economic Sanctions
Esfandyar Batmanghelidj (Bourse & Bazaar), Nicholas Hopton (former UK Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran), Kamiar Mohaddes (University of Cambridge)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
9 October 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Struggle for Borders and Borders of Struggle
Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London and London Middle East Institute, SOAS) and Mezna Qato (Kings College, Cambridge)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
8 May 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Syrian Uprising: Domestic Origins and Early Trajectory
Ferdinand Arslanian (University of St Andrews), Billie Jeanne Brownlee (University of Exeter), Raymond Hinnebusch (University of St Andrews), Omar Imady (University of St Andrews), Maria Kastrinou (political anthropologist)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
1 May 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMPalestinian Citizens of Israel: Power, Resistance and the Struggle for Space
Sharri Plonski, SOAS
**Lecture cancelled due to strike action**
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
27 February 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Dynamics of Exclusionary Constitutionalism: Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State
Mazen Masri (City, University of London), Nimer Sultany (SOAS) and Elian Weizman (SOAS)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
6 February 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMRethinking and Reclaiming History: Emerging Arab Interest in Jewish Heritage in the Middle East
Najat Abdulhaq
Since the 1950’s the history of “Arab Jews” is dominated, mainly, by two official narratives. In the last decade however, these narratives have been questioned, not in academia, media and popular culture or journalistic works but in literature. Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
30 January 2018, Brunei Gallery, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PMDonald Macintyre, journalist
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
23 January 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMDevastated Lands: Lebanon at the End of the Great War, 1918
Eugene Rogan, Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford
British Lebanese Association's David Roberts Memorial Lecture. Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
16 January 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMLines or No Lines: The Reality of Maps in Sinai Peninsula and the Middle East
Ahmed Shams, Durham University
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
12 December 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMKing Salman, the US and the Rest
Madawi Al-Rasheed, LSE
Lecture rescheduled from 14 November to 28 November. Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
28 November 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMKennedy and the Middle East: The Cold War, Israel and Saudi Arabia
Antonio Perra, Birkbeck, King's College London & MEND (Muslim Engagement and Development)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
21 November 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMYemen in Crisis, Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State
Helen Lackner, LMEI
Lecture rescheduled from 28 November to 14 November. Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
14 November 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMMazin Qumsiyeh, Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
31 October 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Political Economy of the Kurds of Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic
Veli Yadirgi (SOAS), Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
24 October 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMA Concise History of Sunnis and Shi‘is
John McHugo, Centre for Syrian Studies, St Andrews University
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
17 October 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMSteffen Hertog, LSE
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
10 October 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948
Laila Parsons, Institute of Islamic Studies (McGill University)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
2 May 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMHadhramaut and its Diaspora: Yemeni Politics, Identity and Migration
Muhammad Bin-Dohry, Noel Brehony, William Clarence-Smith, Thanos Petouris, Helen Lackner and James Spencer
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
25 April 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMOne and a Half Coup D’états: Politics of Fear in Erdogan’s Turkey
Mehmet Kurt, International State Crime Initiative (ISCI), Queen Mary University of London
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
14 March 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMProzak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran
Orkideh Behrouzan, King’s College London
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
7 March 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Importance of Marmaduke Pickthall
Peter Clark, formerly British Council
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
28 February 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Palestinian Novel: From 1948 to the Present
Bashir Abu-Manneh, University of Kent
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
21 February 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMInter-Ethnic Marriages in a Divided Society: Palestinian-Jewish Families in Israel
Maha Karkabi-Sabbah, Tel-Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
7 February 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMHezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon’s Party of God
Joseph Daher, Lausanne University, Switzerland
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
31 January 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre , 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918-1947
Lauren Banko (University of Manchester), Nelida Fuccaro (SOAS)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
24 January 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Poisoned Well: Empire and Its Legacy in the Middle East
Roger Hardy, formerly BBC World Service
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
17 January 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMTurkey's Attempted Coup d'État and its Aftermath
William Hale, SOAS
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
10 January 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMIranian Cinema Uncensored: Contemporary Film-Makers Since the Islamic Revolution
Shiva Rahbaran
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
6 December 2016, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMPopular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East
John Chalcraft, LSE
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
29 November 2016, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMHoly Lands - How to Revive Pluralism in the Middle East?
Nicolas Pelham, The Economist
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
22 November 2016, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMPoetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World
Atef Alshaer (University of Westminster), Caroline Rooney (University of Kent), Dina Matar (SOAS)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
15 November 2016, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMKuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life
Farah Al-Nakib, American University of Kuwait
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
1 November 2016, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Emergence of the Gulf States
J.E. Peterson, Michael Crawford, Hala Fattah, Steffen Hertog
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
25 October 2016, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMPalestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities
Anaheed Al-Hardan (American University of Beirut), Nur Masalha (Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
18 October 2016, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMWhat Happened to the "Arab Spring"?
Gilbert Achcar, SOAS
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
4 October 2016, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Struggle for the State in Jordan: The Social Origins of Alliances in the Middle East
Jamie Allinson, University of Edinburgh
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
3 May 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMSocial Movements and the Future of Politics from Below in the Middle East
Stephanie Cronin (Oxford) and Tara Povey (SOAS)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
26 April 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMViolence and the City in the Modern Middle East
Nelida Fuccaro, SOAS
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
15 March 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Iranian Revolution in the Mirror of Uneven and Combined Development
Kamran Matin, University of Sussex
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
8 March 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMCivil Resistance in North Africa since 2010
Alia Brahimi (Oxford), George Joffé (Cambridge), Rory McCarthy (Oxford), Adam Roberts (Oxford), Michael Willis (Oxford)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
1 March 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMLebanon and the 21st century: everyday life in times of permanent crisis
Andrew Arsan, University of Cambridge
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
23 February 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMMoney and Value: From Qur'an to contemporary Islamic Economics
Ersilia Francesca, University of Naples “L’Orientale”
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
16 February 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMBetween Radical Islam and Kurdishness: Hizbullah in Eastern Turkey
Mehmet Kurt, Bingol University
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
2 February 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMPopular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance
Marwan Darweish, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
26 January 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMWhy Did Economists Miss out on the Arab Uprisings?
Hassan Hakimian, LMEI
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
19 January 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMA Holy War Made in America: The United States and the 1914 Germano-Ottoman Call for Global Jihad
Karine Walther, Georgetown University - Qatar
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
12 January 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM7 Sides of A Cylinder - 7 Short Films by 7 Iranian Filmmakers
Haleh Anvari, Producer
Screening of 7 shorts by 7 young Iranian film makers in response to the British Museum tour of the Cyrus Cylinder in 2013 to five major museums across the USA. Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
8 December 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMWhere the Sea kisses the Desert – Multi-ethnic Musical Impressions from the Arabian Peninsula
Rolf Killius
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
24 November 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMRevolutionary Egypt: Four Years On
Reem Abou-El-Fadl (SOAS), Charles Tripp (SOAS), Miriyam Aouragh (Westminster), Adam Hanieh (SOAS), Nicola Pratt (Warwick) and Kerem Oktem (Graz)
Panel discussion to mark the launch of the 2015 edited volume Revolutionary Egypt: Connecting Domestic and International Struggles. Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
17 November 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Creative Enterprise and Alternative Spaces of Imagination in Iran
Pamela Karimi, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and former IHF Visiting Fellow, Centre for Iranian Studies
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
10 November 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMIslamic State: The Digital Caliphate
Abdel Bari Atwan, Rai al-Youm
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
27 October 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMGhada Karmi, University of Exeter
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
20 October 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMQatar – Small State, Big Politics
Mehran Kamrava, Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
13 October 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMHidden Light: A View from Cosmopolitan Kuwait
Mai Al-Nakib, Kuwait University
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
6 October 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMStefania Petralla, former Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) Visiting Fellow, Centre for Iranian Studies
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
17 March 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allah and His People
Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European University, Budapest
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
10 March 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Caliphate: back to the future?
S Sayyid, University of Leeds; Madawi Al-Rasheed, Middle East Centre at LSE and the Open Society Foundation; Reza Pankhurst, academic and author
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.3 March 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PMContemporary Art from the Middle East: Regional Interactions with Global Art Discourses
Hamid Keshmirshekan, LMEI & Venetia Porter, British Museum
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
17 February 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism
Toby Matthiesen, University of Cambridge
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
27 January 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMIsrael/Palestine: does recognising both states make a difference?
Sir Vincent Fean KCVO, former Consul General to Jerusalem
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
20 January 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMPalestine: The Invisible Damage of Life under Occupation
Samah Jabr
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
9 December 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMWhy Yemen matters: Development, Security and the rhetoric of Unity
Helen Lackner, British-Yemeni Society
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.2 December 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMHassan Hakimian, LMEI; Parvin Alizadeh, Boston University Study Abroad; Kamiar Mohaddes, University of Cambridge; Sima Motamen-Samadian, Centre for the Study of Advanced and Emerging Markets
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
25 November 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Persian-Portuguese Encounter in Hormuz
Ghoncheh Tazmini, former Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) Visiting Fellow, Centre for Iranian Studies
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
18 November 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication
Atef Alshaer, University of Westminster; Lina Khatib, Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut; and Dina Matar, Centre for Media Studies, SOAS
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
11 November 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMWilliam Mathew, University of East Anglia
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
28 October 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories: state-building without a state
Dimitris Bouris, College of Europe
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
21 October 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Arab Uprisings - Driven by Youth or Adults?
Zafiris Tzannatos, Senior Consultant for Strategy and Policy
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
14 October 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMSimin Behbahani: A Career in Poetry
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland and SOAS
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
7 October 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMWomen, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran
Tara Povey, SOAS, Mehri Honarbin-Holliday, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, Elaheh Rostami-Povey, Centre for Iranian Studies
Resheduled from 4 February 2014. Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
29 April 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMAn Historical Overview of the Iranian Presidency: 1979-2013
Siavush Ranjbar-Daemi, University of Manchester
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
11 March 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMIran and the Global Economy: Petro Populism, Islam and Economic Sanctions
Parvin Alizadeh, Boston University, Study Abroad London and Hassan Hakimian, LMEI & SOAS
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
4 March 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMFalafel King: culinary customs and national narratives in Palestine
Zeina Ghandour, Birkbeck
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
25 February 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe myth of Perfidious Albion: Anglo-Iranian relations in historical context
Ali Ansari, St Andrews
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
18 February 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMWomen, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran
Tara Povey, SOAS, Mehri Honarbin-Holliday, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, Elaheh Rostami-Povey, Centre for Iranian Studies
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
4 February 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMResearching dress in Saudi Arabia: Lessons and Opportunities
Aisa Martinez, LMEI
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
28 January 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMQatar and the Arab Spring: Policy Responses and Consequences
Kristian Coates-Ulrichsen, Baker III Institute of Public Policy at Rice University in Houston
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
21 January 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMSanctions on Iran, International Law and international human rights standards
Mansour Talebpour, Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
10 December 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMAn Historical Overview of the Iranian Presidency: 1979-2013
Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, University of Manchester
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
3 December 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMArabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East
Abdel Moneim Said Aly, Regional Center for Strategic Studies, Cairo, Shai Feldman, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, US, and Khalil Shikaki, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, Ramallah
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
26 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Possibility of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought
Moshe Behar, University of Manchester, Yair Wallach, SOAS and Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck College
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
19 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMJoel Beinin, Stanford University
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
12 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Power and the People: paths of resistance in the Middle East
Charles Tripp, SOAS and Gilbert Achcar, SOAS
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
29 October 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMSectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't
Toby Matthiesen, University of Cambridge
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
22 October 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMEgypt in Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution
Adel Iskander, Georgetown University
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
15 October 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMCopts at the Crossroads: The Challenges of Building Inclusive Democracy in Egypt
Mariz Tadros, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
8 October 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Making and Unmaking of a Zionist: A Personal and Political Journey
Anthony Lerman, author; Ghada Karmi, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
19 March 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMRevolt in Syria: Eye-Witness to the Uprising
Stephen Starr, freelance journalist
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
12 March 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMIran’s Expanding Relations with Latin America
Manouchehr Dorraj, Texas Christian University and a Visiting Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for International and Regional Studies, Doha, Qatar
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
5 March 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMRags, Tommy-Guns, and the King: Palestinians and the Pedagogical Regime, c. 1956.
Mezna Qato, St Antony's College, Oxford
Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) and London Middle East Institute Joint Lecture. Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.26 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMIran's Nuclear Programme: A Surge into Modernity
David Patrikarakos, Author and Journalist
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
19 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Art of Heritage Collection and Research Project: dress in Saudi Arabia
Aisa Martinez, LMEI
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
5 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMWomen's perceptions of access to justice in Iran
Sahar Maranlou, University of Warwick
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
29 January 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMUnfree in Palestine: Registration, Documentation and Movement Restriction
Nadia Abu-Zahra, University of Ottawa; Adah Kay, Cass Business School, City University, London
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
22 January 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMOccupying Syria under the French Mandate: Insurgency, Space and State Formation
Dan Neep, University of Exeter and Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
11 December 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe 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.
4 December 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMRags, Tommy-Guns, and the King: Palestinians and the Pedagogical Regime, c. 1956.
Mezna Qato, St Antony's College, Oxford
Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) and London Middle East Institute Joint Lecture
27 November 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Muslim Brotherhood’s civil state with an Islamic reference: Democracy redefined or confined?
Mariz Tadros, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
20 November 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMWomen and the Arab Spring: feminine voices in a time of transition
Nimah Nawab, writer, lecturer, and activist
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
13 November 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMIslam, 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 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMAnne Lineen, freelance curator
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
23 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMIran Economic Sanctions: Foreign Policy Tool or Weapon of Mass Destruction?
Hassan Hakimian, LMEI, SOAS
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
16 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMPalestine 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.
9 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Middle East in Transition: Syria and the 'Arab Spring'
Samir Aita, Le Monde diplomatique and Gilbert Achcar, SOAS
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?
13 March 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMBetween Ideology and Pragmatism: Zionism in National Socialist Jewish Policy
Frank Nicosia, University of Vermont
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?
6 March 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMBetween Art and Alienation, the Painted T-Walls in Segmented 2012 Baghdad
Caecilia Pieri, Institut français du Proche-Orient
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?
28 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMCorinna Mullin, SOAS
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?
21 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe 'Arab Awakening' in North Africa - one year after
George Joffé, University of Cambridge
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?
7 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMLibyan 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?
31 January 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMPrelude to Revolution: how Arab republics tried, and failed, to turn themselves into monarchies
Steffen Hertog, LSE
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 January 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMPatrick 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?
17 January 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMAlgeria in the Shadow of Revolution
James McDougall, University of Oxford
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?
29 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMAfghanistan/Iran a contemporary cultural and media perspective
Baqer Moin
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?
22 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMWestern interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq in relation to recent developments in the Middle East
Jack Fairweather, former Baghdad correspondent, Telegraph
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?
15 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMTunisia: revolutionary realities?
George Joffé, University of Cambridge
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?
1 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMEffects of Political Changes on Economic Policy and Business
David Butter, Economist Intelligence Unit
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?
25 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMCovering Islam, Covering the Middle East: confessions of a practising journalist
Roger Hardy, former Middle East analyst, BBC World Service
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?
18 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMEgypt: how far is it a revolution?
Maha Azzam, Chatham House
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?
11 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMThe Gulf Arab States and the Political Economy of the Middle East: a moment of change?
Adam Hanieh, SOAS
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?
4 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PMBetween Ideology and Pragmatism: Zionism in National Socialist Jewish Policy
Francis Nicosia, University of Vermont
8 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMPalestinian Cinema - From Militant Propaganda to Independence?
Michel Khleifi, Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle
Film Screening & Lecture/Talk.
1 March 2011, Brunei Gallery, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMSouthern Yemen today and rise and fall of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1967-1990)
Noel Brehony, LMEI and MENAS Associates Ltd.
22 February 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMIn search of the ‘French-Arab Thing’
Henry Laurens, Collège de France
Please note that this lecture will start at the earlier time of 5.30pm and not the usual 6.00pm.
8 February 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMHidden Histories: Reclaiming Truths
Basem Ra'ad, Al-Quds University
1 February 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Arab Media's Music of Resistance
Makram Khoury-Machool, Cambridge-based Scholar
25 January 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMFaisal Devji, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
Lecture by Dr Faisal Devji on torture and the war on terror.
18 January 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMFacing Disaster In the Middle East: Do We Have Only Bad Options?
Stephen Kinzer, author, journalist and lecturer at Boston University
Talk on the subject of Professor Kinzer's controversial new book Reset Middle East (I.B.Tauris, 2010) in which he argues that the US has allied itself with the wrong Middle Eastern states.
11 January 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMAncient Civilisations in Modern Times: Iranian-Egyptian Relations since the Islamic Revolution
Ali Granmayeh, LMEI/former Iranian diplomat
7 December 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMAgainst the Wall: the art of resistance in Palestine
William Parry, freelance journalist and photographer
30 November 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Arab Media's Music of Resistance
Makram Khoury-Machool, University of Cambridge
23 November 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Muslim Brotherhood: the burden of tradition
Alison Pargeter, Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge
16 November 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMQuestions Concerning the Shape of a Hypothetical US-Iranian War
Dan Plesch, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD), SOAS
2 November 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMArab Unity: Reality or Illusion?
Ghayth Armanazi, British Syrian Society
26 October 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMArabs and Israelis Facing the Holocaust and the Nakba
Gilbert Achcar, SOAS; Nur Masalha, Centre for Religion and History and the Holy Land Research Project, St. Mary's University College, University of Surrey; Idith Zertal, Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Basel
Panel Debate on the subject of Gilbert Achcar's book The Arabs and the Holocaust.
19 October 2010, Brunei Gallery, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMGenetics and the Arab Israel Conflict
Tudor Parfitt, SOAS
12 October 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMRoger Hardy, BBC World Service
2 March 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Global Jihad: Disentangling Myth from Reality?
Fawaz Gerges, LSE
23 February 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMBetween the Languages of Silence and the Woman’s Word
Zahia Salhi, University of Leeds
9 February 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMBacklash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond
Anny Bakalian, City University of New York (CUNY)
2 February 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMWhat's Really Wrong with the Middle East
Brian Whitaker, Guardian
26 January 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMBritain and the Middle East in the 9/11 Era
Rosemary Hollis, Olive Tree Programme, City University London
19 January 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMProtest Movements in Egypt. Challenges of Autonomous Politics
Maha M. Abdel-Rahman, University of Cambridge & American University in Cairo
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