Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa

Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa

With hardening authoritarianism and state capture by militias exacerbating the challenges faced by providers of development and political aid across the Middle East and North Africa, how can aid be made more effective? Can donors overcome the limitations of their outdated assistance playbooks? Analysing the fraught relationships between Western aid providers and MENA recipients, the authors of Making Aid Work suggest innovative, practical approaches for overcoming the chronic limitations—and disappointing results—of assistance aimed at encouraging economic development and political reform in the region. Meet our speakers and chair Guilain Denoeux is professor of government at Colby College. His areas of expertise include: Middle Eastern and North African politics, terrorism, insurgency and counter-extremism programming and democracy-building strategies and activities. Robert Springborg is nonresident research fellow of the Italian Institute of International Affairs and adjunct professor in the School of International Studies at Simon Fraser University. Greg Shapland is a Research Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and Principal Investigator and UKRI FCDO Senior Research Fellow on the project, ‘The Political Economy of Water in the MENA Region: A Cross-Regional Assessment’.

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Policy and the Future of Education in Kuwait

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 Jun 59min

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

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 Jun 58min

In Conversation with Abderrahmane Hadj Nacer and Francis Ghiles

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 Jun 1h 16min

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

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 Jun 1h 24min

Kurdish Studies Conference: Developing Kurdish Studies as a scholarly field

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 Jun 1h 25min

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

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 Mai 1h 13min

Social Protection and Conflict Prevention in Lebanon and Jordan

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 Mai 57min

Social Media Consumption and Food-Consumption in Contemporary Kuwait

Social Media Consumption and Food-Consumption in Contemporary Kuwait

The LSE Middle East Centre hosted a Kuwait Programme workshop, presenting research on the influence of social media on food-consumption behaviours in Kuwait. Kuwait is experiencing public health chal...

21 Apr 53min

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