The Struggle for Iraq's Future
Speaker: Zaid Al-Ali, International IDEA Discussant: Toby Dodge, LSE In this lecture, launching Zaid al-Ali’s new book 'The Struggle for Iraq’s Future', the author provides a uniquely insightful int...
7 Mai 20141h 9min
New Social Movements and the Question of Organisation During Revolutionary Processes
Speaker: Maha Abdelrahman, University of Cambridge Discussant: Ahmad Shokr, New York University Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE In this seminar, Dr Abdelrahman raises questions about some of the general f...
6 Mai 201437min
Persian Connections in German-Soviet Relations
Speaker: Jennifer Jenkins, University of Southampton Chair: Roham Alvandi, LSE The Nazi-Soviet Pact, a central topic in the scholarship on the Second World War, is generally studied in its political ...
30 Apr 20141h
Syria-Iraq Relations: From State Formation to the Arab Uprising
Speaker: Raymond Hinnebusch, University of St Andrews Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle East Centre In this talk, Professor Hinnebusch examines Iraq-Syria relations with the aim of using their changing r...
19 Mar 201450min
Algeria and its Southern Neighbours: Turbulence in the Sahara
Speakers: Yvan Guichaoua, University of East Anglia; Imad Mesdoua Chair: John King, Society for Algerian Studies The South of Algeria belongs to the widely integrated Saharan political economy also ...
10 Mar 20141h 31min
Diversified but Marginal: The GCC Private Sector as an Economic and Political Force
Speaker: Steffen Hertog, LSE Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle East Centre Gulf private sectors contribute the majority of national capital formation and employment, and have diversified into a wide rang...
5 Mar 201439min
Neoliberal Development in Palestine and the Regional Context
Speakes: Adam Hanieh, SOAS Chair: Kamil Mehdi, LSE Middle East Centre In this talk, Dr Hanieh draws on his new book, 'Lineages of Revolt', as well as recent fieldwork in the West Bank, to examine the...
24 Feb 201456min
The Politics of the Urban Everyday in the Arab Revolutions
Speaker: Salwa Ismail, SOAS Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE In this seminar, Professor Ismail discusses dimensions of contention and oppositional action anchored in urban space. She addresses the followin...
12 Feb 20141h 41min
