Middle East Careers Panel
BRISMES and LSE Middle East Centre are delighted to host this panel event on Middle East Careers where speakers will talk briefly about their current role and career path and give advice to students. ...
12 Apr 201959min
Transitional Justice in Israel-Palestine: Lessons from Colombia
One of the most prominent sticking points in Israeli–Palestinian negotiations is the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Yoav Kapshuk investigates how the concept of ‘transitional justice’, ofte...
4 Mar 20191h 15min
Sexualities & LGTB Activism in the Middle East and North Africa
Apologies for the abrupt start of the podcast. The first two minutes of the recording were corrupted. A panel of academics and activists will make critical interventions on sexualities and approaches...
4 Mar 20191h 26min
The Return of the Military: Hybridity, Duality, and Political Activism
The national armed forces of Arab states have been undergoing a radical transformation. New fluid coalitions of armed state and non-state actors engage in complex patterns of coexistence and contestat...
15 Feb 20191h 35min
Israel's Basic Law: Motivations and Ramifications
On 19 July 2018, the Israeli parliament passed the controversial Basic Law, which defines the nature of the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. This talk analyses the different c...
15 Feb 201946min
Israeli-Gulf Relations and Changing Middle Eastern Geopolitics
In recent years Israel has forged closer links with Arab Gulf states with which it has no diplomatic relations, unlike Egypt and Jordan. The main factors in their converging interests are shared alarm...
1 Feb 20191h 21min
Four Decades of Reporting Change in the Middle East
Speaker: Jim Muir, BBC News and LSE Middle East Centre Visiting Senior Fellow Chair: Ian Black, LSE Middle East Centre Visiting Senior Fellow Jim Muir has lived in and reported on the Middle East sin...
21 Jan 20191h 28min
Islam and Ethnicity in the Kurdish Political Sphere in Turkey
Speaker: Mehmet Kurt, LSE and Yale University Chair: Robert Lowe, LSE Middle East Deputy Director Islam has returned to the Turkish and Kurdish public and political spheres, becoming an effective mea...
19 Des 20181h 25min
