LSE hosts a wide and varied range of Middle East events, including public lectures, seminars, book launches and conferences. Events are open to the public and are free of charge, unless specified otherwise. This list of events includes all Middle East Centre events and other selected Middle East events at LSE.
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Monday 24 February | 17:30 - 19:00 GMT | Oula Kadhum, SOAS; Khogir Mohammed, Middle East Research Institute; Muhanad Seloom, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
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Co-organised with the LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa
This International Women’s Day 2025 Conference will platform the diverse voices of women who work or are involved in the agricultural sector in Africa, and who are leading the way within their own communities and internationally to make the sector sustainable.
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Understanding Hamas: And Why That Matters (Book Launch)
Monday 10 March | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Helena Cobban, Just World Education; Jeroen Gunning, LSE Middle East Centre; Mouin Rabbani
Registration opens Mon 24 February | Add to calendar
Co-organised with the Department of Sociology
The Time beneath the Concrete: Palestine between Camp and Colony (Book Launch)
Thursday 13 March | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Nasser Abourahme, Bowdoin College; Muna Dajani, LSE Middle East Centre
Registration opens Thurs 27 February | Add to calendar
Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey: Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State (Book Launch)
Tuesday 18 March | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Seçkin Sertdemir Özdemir, LSE; Zerrin Özlem Biner, SOAS; Esra Özyürek, University of Cambridge
Registration opens Tues 4 March | Add to calendar
This interdisciplinary event builds on the conferences held at Sheffield in 2024 and LSE in 2023, and is organised by the Kurdish Studies Series at the LSE Middle East Centre and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield.
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