Past Events Podcasts

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 otherwise stated.

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Most of our events are recorded and available on SoundCloud and iTunes. Browse our past events by year below.

Past Events

As part of the LSE MEC's Kurdish Studies Series

Bridging Identities: The Cultural Odyssey of Kurdistani Jews (Webinar)

Monday 2 December | 16:00 - 17:00 GMT | Bahar Baser, Durham University; Duygu Atlas; Mesut Alp; Moayed Assaf

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Healthcare Under Conflict in Sudan

Monday 25 November | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Ibrahim Bani, Yale University; Eva Khair, Sudan Transnational Consortium; Majdi Osman, Nubia Health; Nahid Toubia, Institute for Reproductive Health and Rights of Sudan

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The Academic Question of Palestine (Special Issue Launch)

Thursday 21 November | 17:30 - 18:45 GMT | Walaa Alqaisiya, LSE Middle East Centre; Dasha M, Independent Researcher; Nicola Perugini, University of Edinburgh; Lara Sheehi, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies; Anna Younes, Independent Researcher

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Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Iraq, 2003–2023 (Book Launch)

Wednesday 13 November | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Sana Murrani, University of Plymouth; Balsam Mustafa, Cardiff University; Michael Mason, LSE Middle East Centre

Making Sense of the Arab State (Book Launch)

Thursday 7 November | 18:00 - 19:30 GMT | Lisa Anderson, Columbia University; Steven Heydemann, Smith College; Salwa Ismail, SOAS; Marc Lynch, The George Washington University

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As part of LSE's Public Lecture Programme

The 2024 Ian Black Memorial Lecture: A War Like No Other: Challenge and Change in Reporting Gaza

Monday 4 November | 18:30 - 19:30 GMT | Jim Muir, Journalist

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Co-organised with the Department of International Relations, LSE

How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare (Book Launch)

Tuesday 22 October | 18:30 - 20:00 BST | Narges Bajoghli & Vali Nasr, Johns Hopkins University, Sanam Vakil, Chatham House

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Co-organised with the Department of Geography and Environment, LSE

An Archival History of Jordan’s Nature Reserves: Conservation, Racial Science and National Identity

Tuesday 15 October | 18:00 - 19:00 BST | Olivia Mason, Newcastle University; Frederick Wojnarowski, Department of Anthropology, LSE

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Israel, Gaza and the Wider Regional Conflict: Assessing the Probability of a Broader War

Wednesday 9 October | 18:00 - 19:30 BST | Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick; Mohammad Ali Shabani, Amwaj Media & Yezid Sayigh, Carnegie Middle East Center

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Student Careers Panel & Reception

Thursday 3 October | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Richard Barltrop, UN Consultant; Nada Bashir, Journalist, CNN; Alexandra Gomes, Research Officer, LSE Cities; Mina Toksoz, International Economist

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Strategy and Domestic Politics in Israeli Foreign Policy: From the End of the Cold War to the 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War

Thursday 20 June | 18:00 - 19:15 BST | Amnon Aran, City, University of London

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As part of the LSE Festival 2024

The Drama of Displacement: The Journey of a Syrian Refugee through Theatre

Thursday 13 June | 18:00 - 19:30 BST | Nesrin Alrefaai, LSE Middle East Centre; Matthew Spangler, San José State University in California

Co-hosted with the Department of Sociology, LSE

Revolution of Things: Islamism and post-Islamism of objects in Iran

Monday 10 June | 15:00 - 16:30 BST | Kusha Sefat, University of Tehran; James Caron, SOAS

As part of the LSE MEC's Kurdish Studies Series

Women Fighters in the Kurdish National Movement: Transforming Gender Politics and the PKK

Thursday 6 June | 17:00 - 18:00 BST | Mustafa Kemal Topal, Roskilde University in Denmark

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Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East

Tuesday 4 June | 18:00 - 19:00 BST | Christopher Phillips, Queen Mary, University of London; Faisal Al Yafai, New Lines Magazine

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The Palestinian University and Scholasticide

Tuesday 28 May | 16:00 - 17:00 BST | Ahmed Abu Shaban, Al-Azhar University — Gaza; Esmat Elhalaby, University of Toronto

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Kurdish Studies Conference, 22-23 May 2024

This interdisciplinary event builds on the inaugural conference at 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.

Industrial Policy in Turkey: Rise, Retreat and Return (Book Launch)

Monday 20 May | 16:00 - 17:00 BST | William Hale, SOAS; Mustafa Kutlay, City, University of London; Mina Toksoz, Author and International Economist

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