LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts2 Heinä 2024

Women Fighters in the Kurdish National Movement: Transforming Gender Politics and the PKK

This event, as part of the LSE Middle East Centre's Kurdish Studies Series, was the launch of Mustafa Kemal Topal's latest book 'Women Fighters in the Kurdish National Movement: Transforming Gender Politics and the PKK' published by I.B. Tauris. This book examines how the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has become a platform for shifts in gender politics through its women fighters. Based on fieldwork undertaken in Iraq, Syria and Europe - including in-depth interviews and participant observation within women's camps - the book examines Kurdish women fighters' motivations to join the PKK, as well as their personal life stories and views on gender, patriarchy, and ethnic minority experiences. This is the largest ethnographic study on the PKK to date and the book argues that in addition to seeking their nation's struggle for survival and a democratic society, Kurdish women fighters are driven by the prospect of improving conditions for themselves and for women across the entire region. Meet the speaker Mustafa Kemal Topal is Assistant Professor at the Roskilde University in Denmark, where he also received his PhD. He is a fellow at the Bergen University in Norway, having been awarded the Independent Research Fund Denmark International’s Postdoctoral Grant for his new project ‘Kurdish Women’s Democratic Experiment in Post-Conflict Northern Syria’. This event was moderated by Robert Lowe. Robert Lowe is Deputy Director of the LSE Middle East Center and Co-Editor of the LSE Middle East Centre's Kurdish Studies Series published by I.B. Tauris. His main research interest is Kurdish politics, with particular focus on the Kurdish movements in Syria.

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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