LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts20 Touko 2019

Satellite Sectarianisation or Plain Old Partisanship? Inciting Violence in the Arab Mainstream Media

This report assesses widespread claims that pan-Arab satellite news channels have been responsible for inciting sectarian violence during the Arab uprisings. Based on an empirical study of how three of the most popular channels – Al-Jazeera Arabic, Al-Arabiya and Al-Mayadeen - have framed seminal events involving violence between sects in Syria and Iraq, the report finds that while often geo-politically charged, some of these claims are valid. While abusive language or direct promotion of violence is rare in a mainstream context, incitement to sectarian violence has primarily been invoked through linguistic, stylistic and thematic tropes that forge legitimacy claims and narratives of victimhood. The paper draws on these findings to make recommendations for UK policymaker engagement with the Arab media. Recorded on 1 May 2019. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jessica Watkins is Research Officer at the Middle East Centre, currently working on a DFID-funded project looking at regional drivers of conflict in Iraq and Syria. The project ties in with Jessica’s previous research at the Rand Corporation into Iraqi and regional security issues. Her PhD at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, was on policing and dispute management in Jordan. Ian Black (@ian_black) is Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Middle East Centre and a former Middle East editor, diplomatic editor and European editor for the Guardian newspaper. Image: Microphones set out for a Tehran press conference with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari, 16 September 2012. © Stringer/EPA/Shutterstock

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Sovereignty in Iran: Challenges to Eurocentrism from Ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic

The LSE Middle East Centre hosted the launch of Shabnam Holliday's new book, Sovereignty in Iran: Challenges to Eurocentrism from Ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic. This multidisciplinary and inter...

7 Heinä 1h 3min

Policy and the Future of Education in Kuwait

The LSE Middle East Centre hosted a Kuwait Programme panel discussion highlighting recent education policy issues and trajectories in Kuwait and globally, with a focus on the role of policy in shaping...

29 Kesä 59min

Turkey and the Liberal International Order: Hegemony, Contestation and the Politics of Articulation since 1919

The LSE Middle East Centre hosted the launch of 'Turkey and the Liberal International Order', a new book examining Turkey’s complex and evolving relationship with the liberal international order from ...

29 Kesä 58min

In Conversation with Abderrahmane Hadj Nacer and Francis Ghiles

As part of the British Academy Conference 'Algeria: Historical Struggles and Imagined Utopias' organised by the LSE Middle East Centre and the Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University. A fa...

18 Kesä 1h 16min

Algeria and the Anxiety of Decolonisation: Case Studies in Language and Gender

Professor Zahia Smail Salhi is Chair of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester since 2013 and Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science at Sharjah University for the la...

16 Kesä 1h 24min

Kurdish Studies Conference: Developing Kurdish Studies as a scholarly field

This plenary session, delivered as part of the 2026 Kurdish Studies Conference by Marlene Schäfers, University of Utrecht and Kurdish Studies Journal and Welat Zeydanlıoğlu, Kurdish Studies Network, w...

15 Kesä 1h 25min

Sudan’s Current War: A Longer View on Peacemaking and Prospects

The LSE Middle East Centre hosted the launch of Richard Barltrop’s paper, 'Sudan’s Current War: A Longer View on Peacemaking and Prospects'. This hybrid event launched a new paper examining the ongoi...

27 Touko 1h 13min

Social Protection and Conflict Prevention in Lebanon and Jordan

This webinar examines perceptions of social protection and conflict prevention in Lebanon and Jordan among policymakers and household recipients of state-provided cash transfers. Drawing on extensive...

8 Touko 57min