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LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts
Welcome to the LSE Middle East Centre's podcast feed. The MEC builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and North Africa and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region carried out at LSE. Follow us and keep up to date with our latest event podcasts and interview...
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Paths Made by Walking: The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran
This event was the launch of 'Paths Made by Walking: The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran' by Amina Tawasil.
This groundbreaking ethnography...
The Kurdish Issue in the Middle East's New Turning Point
This keynote lecture delivered by Professor Hamit Bozarslan took place during the Kurdish Studies Conference organised by the LSE Middle East Centre a...
Kurdish Justice in Northeast Syria
This talk delivered by Professor René Provost explored important lessons on the promises and limits of non-state justice in conflict zones, specifical...
Charles Tripp and the Comparative Politics of the Middle East
This event celebrated the work of Professor Charles Tripp through a new edited volume by Toby Dodge, Daniel Neep and Ali Ansari.
The work...
From Past and Present to Future: Finding a Positive Path between Ideals and Possibilities in Yemen
What does Yemen’s political, economic and social history and experience tell us about what is realistic for the coming decade and beyond? This keynote...
Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey: Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State
This event was the launch of Seçkin Sertdemir's latest book 'Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey: Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State' publis...
Women and Work in MENA And South Asia: Puzzles, Paradoxes and Policy Challenges
This event, co-organised with the Department of International Development at LSE, was a discussion with Professor Naila Kabeer and Professor Ragui Ass...
Iraq’s Economy between the US and Iran: Perceptions and Realities
This event disseminated the findings of a series of papers produced for the LSE Middle East Centre by Ahmed Tabaqchali exploring the economic and fina...
The Struggles of Labour Mobilisation in Lebanon and Iraq (Paper Launch)
This event was the launch of Dr Anne Kirstine Rønn's latest paper as part of the LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series on 'The Struggles of Labour Mobil...
Trumps Second Term and the Middle East
The return of Donald Trump to the White House in 2025 comes on the back of extreme violence in the Middle East, led by Israel and with great financial...
Iranian Kurdistan Under the Islamic Republic: Change, Revolution, and Resistance
This event was the launch of Dr Marouf Cabi's latest book 'Iranian Kurdistan Under the Islamic Republic: Change, Revolution, and Resistance' published...
From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics
This event was the launch of Jerome Drevon's latest book 'From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics' published by Oxford University...
Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Iraq
This event was the launch of Dr Sana Murrani's latest book 'Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Ira...
Bridging Identities: The Cultural Odyssey of Kurdistani Jews
This event, as part of the LSE Middle East Centre's Kurdish Studies Series, discussed the online exhibition and research project 'Bridging Identities:...
The Academic Question of Palestine
This event was a conversation around the special issue 'The Academic Question of Palestine' published by the journal Middle East Critique. This issue...
Healthcare Under Conflict in Sudan
This event brought together academics and healthcare professionals to shed light on the healthcare crisis in Sudan.
With more than 70% of...
Making Sense of the Arab State
This event was the launch of 'Making Sense of the Arab State' edited by Steven Heydemann & Marc Lynch, and published by University of Michigan Press.<...
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare
This event, organised by the LSE Middle East Centre and the Department of International Relations, LSE was a discussion around the book 'How Sanctions...
An Archival History of Jordan’s Nature Reserves: Conservation, Racial Science and National Identity
In this talk, Dr Olivia Mason traced the history of Jordan's nature reserves in the British archives, exploring how nature reserves bring global and s...
Israel, Gaza and the Wider Regional Conflict: Assessing the Probability of a Broader War
With Israel’s assault on Lebanon increasing and its war on Gaza continuing without a diplomatic resolution in sight, the Israeli government is involve...
Student Careers Panel
This event was a student careers panel, providing an opportunity to hear insights from panellists covering diverse fields of academia and research, jo...
Strategy and Domestic Politics in Israeli Foreign Policy
In this lecture, Professor Amnon Aran will explore the interplay between domestic politics and strategy in Israeli foreign policy, from the end of the...
Women Fighters in the Kurdish National Movement: Transforming Gender Politics and the PKK
This event, as part of the LSE Middle East Centre's Kurdish Studies Series, was the launch of Mustafa Kemal Topal's latest book 'Women Fighters in the...
Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East
This event was a launch of Professor Christopher Phillips' latest book 'Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East' published by Yale...
The Power Of Radio
How did the radio, a major technological development in the history of sound and music, change the social, cultural and political landscape of the reg...
The Palestinian University and Scholasticide
As of April 2024, according to UN experts, over 80% of schools have been damaged or destroyed by the Israeli assault on Gaza, with 5479 students, 261...
Industrial Policy in Turkey: Rise, Retreat and Return
This webinar was a launch of 'Industrial Policy in Turkey: Rise, Retreat and Return' by William Hale, Mustafa Kutlay and Mina Toksoz published by Edin...
War Tech and Nationalism in Turkey and Israel
This episode explores the link between technology, warfare and nationalism. Turkey and Israel are two countries in the region who have developed their...
Data for Development with Nagla Rizk
What does the era of ‘big data’ mean for development technologies in MENA? How can data be used for good, to ensure projects working with vulnerable c...
Living In the Future with Rahel Aima
Writer and art critic, Rahel Aima, who grew up and currently lives in Dubai, talks to us about living in the Gulf, a region rapidly developing itself...
13 Years After the Arab Spring: What are the Chances for Legitimate Constitutions in the Arab World?
This event, co-organised with LSE IDEAS, was the launch of the special issue ‘Arab Constitutional Responses to the Revolutions and Transformations in...
Navigating the Crisis: Yemen 10 Years On
Nearly ten years since the onset of the crisis in Yemen this discussion provided an in-depth assessment of the conflict over the past decade. Panellis...
Art Meaning and Art Making with Nadim Choufi
How can art complicate claims of progress, innovation and the use of rapidly developing emerging technologies in MENA? In this episode, Cima Chehab sp...
Archiving and Mapping Technologies in Palestine and Syria
Majd Al-Shihabi of 'Palestine Open Maps' and Sana Yazigi of the 'Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution' talk to us about how they have centered the...
Social Media Influencing in the City of Likes: Dubai and the Postdigital Condition
This event was the launch Zoe Hurley's new book 'Social Media Influencing in the City of Likes: Dubai and the Postdigital Condition'.
Eva...
Political Elites, Civil Society and the Future of Sudan
This event was co-organised by the LSE Middle East Centre and the LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa.
This panel explored the crisis in...
Fintech, Crypto and Sanctions in Iraq and Iran
Iraq’s engagement with fintech is new but rapidly developing, amidst a contemporary economic history that has struggled with foreign intervention and...
Translating the Language of the Syrian Revolution
This event was the launch Eylaf Bader Eddin's new book 'Translating the Language of the Syrian Revolution' published by De Gruyter Press.
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Artificial Intelligence and Development in MENA: Inclusion or Inequality?
What kind of advancements have we seen in artificial intelligence in the Middle East and North Africa in the contemporary period, how has this technol...
Re-Appropriating Technologies with and for Refugees and Migrants
Smartphones, food-only debit cards, biometric data checks at border crossings, these are some of the ways refugees and migrants interact with technolo...