Putting Gender at the Centre: The Feminist Turn in the Kurdish Political Movement
Speakers: Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS; Latif Tas, SOAS Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE Horizontal organising within social movements is not necessarily sensitive to gender-based and other intersectional forms of i...
20 Nov 20171h 51min
Education Reform in Qatar: the role of policy borrowing
Kuwait Programme Seminar Speaker: Lolwah Alkhater, University of Oxford Chair: Courtney Freer, LSE Kuwait Programme Since the turn of the century, many GCC states have undertaken ambitious economic a...
13 Nov 20171h 23min
And Then God Created the Middle East and Said 'Let there be breaking news and analysis'
Speaker: Karl Sharro aka Karl reMarks Chair: Dina Matar, SOAS The Middle East is the mysterious land of veils, minarets and Orientalist clichés. Karl Sharro, aka Karl reMarks, talks about his six yea...
7 Nov 20171h 29min
Searching for the 'Post' in 'Postcolonial': Reflections on Studying Contemporary Algeria
Speaker: Michael Willis, University of Oxford Chair: William Sinton, Society for Algerian Studies Algerian history has received a significant amount of scholarly attention but almost exclusively focu...
18 Okt 20171h 25min
Reorienting the PKK: Rojava and the political thought of Abdullah Öcalan
Speaker: Joost Jongerden, Wageningen University Chair: Robert Lowe, LSE Middle East Centre In its 1978 manifesto, the PKK declared the establishment of an independent state to be the most important ...
12 Okt 20171h 22min
Trump and the Middle East: Personality, Ideology and Militarisation
Speaker: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle East Centre Chair: Richard Saull, QMUL In this lecture, Toby Dodge examines the Trump administration’s approach to the Middle East, specifically its policy towards Ira...
11 Okt 20171h 26min
Task Force on the Future of Iraq: Achieving Long-Term Stability to Ensure the Defeat of ISIS
Speakers: Toby Dodge, LSE; Nussaibah Younis, Chatham House; Christine van den Toorn, IRIS In this event, Toby Dodge, Nussaibah Younis and Christine van den Toorn discuss the final report of the Task ...
27 Juni 20171h 30min
An Impending Nuclear Deal With Iran?
Speaker: Mark Fitzpatrick, International Institute for Strategic Studies Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle East Centre With a framework agreement on the future shape of Iran's nuclear programme reached a...
24 Maj 20171h 20min
