Why has Diplomacy Failed in Yemen so far?
Speaker: Farea Al-Muslimi, Chairman and co-founder of Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies. Chair: Michael Mason, LSE Middle East Centre Director. For the last four years, Yemen has been suffering one...
19 Des 20181h 19min
Syria: Beyond the Endgame
Speaker: Martin Chulov, The Guardian Chair: Ian Black, LSE Senior Visiting Fellow With the battle for Syrian soil near an end, the most brutal conflict of modern times is becoming a fight for who get...
28 Nov 20181h 30min
Saudi Post - Khashoggi: What Next for the Kingdom?
Apologies for the abrupt ending of the podcast. The recording was cut short. You can watch the full lecture online on our facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/lsemiddleeastcentre/videos/363890...
28 Nov 20181h 35min
Updating 'A Modern History of the Kurds'
Speakers: David McDowall and Zeynep Kaya, LSE Middle East Centre. David McDowall’s ground-breaking modern history of the Kurds was first published in 1996. It became a foundation text for the subsequ...
14 Nov 20181h 15min
Mission Impossible? The Case for a Syrian-Led Political Process
Speakers: Salman Sheikh, The Sheikh Group and Courtney Freer, LSE Middle East Centre Salman Shaikh is a negotiations specialist with eight years of experience in running Track II diplomacy with a wid...
14 Nov 20181h 25min
Prospects for Islamist Politics after the Arab Uprisings
Speakers: Hendrik Kraetzschmar, University of Leeds, Paola Rivetti, Dublin City University, Courtney Freer, LSE Middle East Centre, Craig Larkin, King’s College London. Chair: Katerina Dalacoura, LSE ...
9 Nov 20181h 22min
The Qatar Crisis in the Maghreb: fake news, political pressures and real weapons
Speakers: Youssef Cherif, Deputy Director of Columbia Global Centers, Tunis, member in Carnegie's Civic Research Network. Youssef Cherif analyses how the Maghreb region is another theatre of the col...
9 Nov 20181h 22min
Rentier Islamism: : The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf Monarchies
Speakers: Courtney Freer, Toby Doge, LSE Middle East Centre; Stéphane Lacroix, Sciences Po, Paris; John Jenkins, Policy Exchange, London. Scholars of Middle Eastern politics have long overlooked the...
8 Nov 20181h 24min
