New Trends of Women's Activism After the Arab Uprisings: Redefining Women's Leadership
Speaker: Aitemad Muhanna-Matar, LSE Chair: Lori Allen, SOAS Aitemad Muhanna-Matar presents the findings of field research conducted in five countries (Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Yemen and the occupied ...
6 Nov 201428min
High-Risk Activism and Popular Struggle Against the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank
Speaker: Joel Beinin , Stanford University Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE Since 2002, local Palestinian popular committees have led a grass roots struggle against the separation barrier Israel has constr...
4 Nov 20141h 25min
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War
Speaker: Roham Alvandi, LSE Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle East Centre Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, is often remembered as a pliant instrument of American power during the Cold War. I...
16 Okt 20141h 15min
Iraq: Causes and Consequences of the Present Crisis
Speakers: Toby Dodge, Faleh Jabar Chair: Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck, University of London The seizure of Mosul by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and their rapid move south towards Baghdad has ...
26 Juni 20141h 42min
Oman's Foreign Policy Under Sultan Qaboos: Independent, but to What Extent?
Speaker: Marc Valeri, University of Exeter Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle East Centre Oman’s foreign policy under Qaboos is usually considered to be pragmatic and independent – as illustrated by the s...
22 Maj 201439min
Will the Real Palestinian Peasantry Please Sit Down? A New History of British Rule in Palestine
Speaker: Charles Anderson, Georgetown University Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE Charles Anderson discusses his paper, which is part of a broader argument for a history from below of Arab society under t...
20 Maj 20141h 49min
The Macroeconomics of the Gulf
Speaker: Raphael Espinoza, IMF Chair: Danny Quah, LSE Raphael Espinoza analyses the challenges created by the changes the economies of the Gulf states have undergone in the last decade, spurred by hi...
15 Maj 201454min
US-Iran Détente: Past and Present
Speakers: Ambassador John Limbert, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern (Iranian) Affairs; Chris Emery, University of Plymouth; Roham Alvandi, LSE Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle ...
12 Maj 20141h 3min
