The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts
This event launches The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts, written by Harriet Allsopp and Wladimir van Wilgenburg and published by Bloomsbury in July 2019. Based on unpreced...
18 Sep 20191h 34min
A Fragmented Landscape: Barriers to Independent Media in Iraq
The Iraqi media landscape has been characterised by partisan ownership, in the main based on political and religious affiliations. Comparative ethnographic research has revealed highly irregular pract...
26 Jun 20191h 10min
The Kurdish Women’s Movement: On Revolution, Militarism and Body Politics
Women have been at the forefront of many of the political and military struggles in the Kurdish Middle East, most visibly so since the outbreak of the ‘Rojava Revolution’ in 2012. But women have in fa...
14 Jun 20191h 20min
Paving the Way: The politics of Turkey’s central government spending under AKP rule
Since free elections were introduced in Turkey, no other party has been able to retain its incumbency as much as the Justice and Development Party (AKP). Given incumbents’ tendency to lose support ove...
14 Jun 20191h 17min
The 1953 Coup in Iran: About Oil or Communism?
There has been much discussion whether the 1953 should be understood in the context of the Cold War or that of economic conflicts between the industrial West and developing countires--in other words, ...
31 Mai 20191h 49min
“L'après-Bouteflika”: The Army, the People and the Prospects for Reform in Algeria
Since February 2019 and President Bouteflika’s announcement that he intended to stand for a fifth term, hundreds of thousands of protesters have descended upon Algeria’s streets to demand his resignat...
29 Mai 20191h 55min
Travelling With Gramsci: Capital and the Afterlives of Empire in Egypt and the Middle East
Stuart Hall once wrote that we mustn’t use Gramsci like ‘an Old Testament prophet who, at the correct moment, will offer us the consoling and appropriate quotation.’ Instead, we must ‘think’ our prob...
20 Mai 20191h 1min
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 o...
20 Mai 20191h 6min
