The Notion of Salafiyya: Between Saudi Arabia and Turkey
Speaker: Andrew Hammond, University of Oxford Chair: Courtney Freer, LSE Kuwait Programme Despite the large presence of Salafism in Arabic political and religious discourse today, the term ...
1 Mar 20161h 6min
EU Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa: Lobbying, Networks and Framing
Speaker: Benedetta Voltolini, Sciences Po Paris & LSE Middle East Centre Chair: Dr Federica Bicchi, LSE Benedetta Voltolini presents her paper investigating lobbying and framing in EU foreign policy ...
9 Feb 201624min
Democratisation in the Maghreb
Speaker: Jonathan Hill, King's College London Chair: William Sinton, Society for Algerian Studies The Arab Spring’s influence on the Maghreb has been piecemeal and partial. What explains these varied...
3 Feb 20161h 15min
Beyond the "Tunisian Exception": (Un)changing Politics and Social Movements
Speaker: Choukri Hmed, Paris Dauphine University Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE Tunisia is frequently known as the small “noiseless country” of the MENA that achieved its political transition and success...
2 Feb 20162h
International Military Intervention and the Politics of Iraq
Speaker: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle East Centre Chair: Zeynep Kaya, LSE Middle East Centre Toby Dodge, MEC Director and Kuwait Professor, considers the reasons behind the rise of the Islamic State and it...
27 Jan 20161h 26min
How the West Undermined Women's Rights in the Arab World
Speaker: Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick Chair: Aitemad Muhanna-Matar, LSE Oral history remains a largely untapped source in research on the Arab world. Simultaneously, women’s activism in the po...
20 Jan 20161h 32min
Muted Modernists: The Struggle Over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia
Speaker: Madawi Al-Rasheed, LSE Middle East Centre Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle East Centre Analysis of both official and opposition Saudi divine politics is often monolithic, conjuring images of co...
14 Jan 20161h 34min
After the Nuclear Deal: Iranian foreign policy in the Middle East
Speaker: Dina Esfandiary, King's College London Chair: Roham Alvandi, LSE With the July 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, attention has shifted to regional security. The rise of ISIS and the instabil...
9 Des 201557min
