We'd like to warmly thank KFAS for welcoming us in #Kuwait and facilitating our promotional lectures on the LSE Kuwait Programme opportunities. We look forward to continuing and strengthening our collaboration together.

This Thursday 16:00 at Institute for Global Prosperity: the TAKHAYYUL تخيل Project project is hosting Alice Wilson & LSE researcher tired to discuss Wilson's Afterlives of Revolution and the broader role of empire and social imaginaries in the context of revolution eventbrite.co.uk/e/afterlives-o…

Followers & partners can get 20% off discount from the top price ticket band with code LENA20.

This Sat 18 May Southbank Centre The award-winning #Syrian #Arminian singer Lena Chamamyan | لينا شاماميان performing at the iconic Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

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Nagla Rizk's episode of the LSE Middle East Centre #InstantCoffee on 'Data for Development' is out! click here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3-8…
Open AIR A Plus Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms AUC School of Business
#AI #data #AI forGood #MENA

Thursday 6-8pm LSE Law School 'Academic Freedom after the Destruction of Gaza’s Universities'

Reem Al-Botmeh (Birzeit University) as speaker & Mezna Qato Rafeef Ziadah Mazen Masri Nimer Sultany, Safaa Sadi Jaber as discussants. Chair Conor Gearty

Register here: lselaw.events/event/academic…

'Palestine: The Arms Industry and Its Discontents', a panel organised by the #DecoloniseAnthropology collective at LSE, is today from 4-6pm in CBG G.01.
If you prefer attending remotely, please register here to receive the Zoom link: lse.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0p…

It’s official 🎟 The ticket line for #LSEFestival 2024: Power and Politics is now open!

Book your free tickets to hear from world-leading experts from 10-15 June 👇
lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Fes…

Join LSE Middle East for a book launch for Industrial Policy in Turkey: Rise, Retreat and Return by William Hale, Mustafa Kutlay and Mina Toksoz published by Edinburgh University Press

📆 Monday 20th May
⏰ 4pm-5pm (BST)
📍Online
ℹ️ lse.ac.uk/middle-east-ce…

I wrote a reflection piece on #Turkey 's #Somalia connection for the LSE Middle East blog. SFU Global Humanities SFU Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences PeaceRep blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2024/05/06…

A new extensive agreement between Ankara and Mogadishu involves Turkish aid for the Somali military & joint exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons off its coast. Spyros A. Sofos asks what lies next as Turkey becomes a more significant regional player blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2024/05/06…

For the first time, the region witnessed a direct – if limited – confrontation between Iran and Israel, amidst the wider turmoil since the Israeli invasion of Gaza in October 2023. Marianna Charountaki asks how this changes the strategic calculus blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2024/05/09…

LSE Middle East is hosting an online book launch for Industrial Policy in Turkey: Rise, Retreat and Return
authored by William Hale, Mustafa Kutlay & Mina Toksoz (Edinburgh Uni Press).

Don't miss it!

Monday 20 May 2024 4.00pm to 5.00pm BST
Chair Arda Bilgen…

'With the foundations of imperialism far from completely dismantled, old structures persisted under new names.'

Read an excerpt from the intro to What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East Fawaz Gerges Yale University Press London📚 ➡ wp.me/p2MwSQ-hkr

Join us on Monday 20 May for the launch of 'Industrial Policy in Turkey' (Edinburgh University Press) by William Hale, Mustafa Kutlay and Mina Toksoz. The book examines the evolution of #Turkey ’s industrial policies in a global context over the last century: lse.ac.uk/middle-east-ce…

Saturday 18 May - London

We can't wait for #Syrian #Arminian singer, songwriter Lena Chamamyan | لينا شاماميان & her wonderful ensemble as they will be performing at the iconic Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Tickets and more info :

artscanteen.com/event/lena-cha…

Very concerning development in the humanitarian situation in (southern) Lebanon.

Lessons from after the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel suggest that it will like take years to recover the damages to livelihoods in South Lebanon.

Back then, the destruction of crops and…

#BRISMES2024 - Registration for non-speaking delegates for the 2024 BRISMES conference “Proliferating Entanglements: Matter and Meaning in the Middle East” is now open until 10 June 2024! You can register here: app.oxfordabstracts.com/events/4134/re…… 1/2

In an excerpt from the intro to What Really Went Wrong Yale University Press London📚, Fawaz Gerges argues that US interventionism during the #ColdWar steered the #MiddleEast away from democracy towards authoritarianism, shaping the region's politics for decades to come.

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All profits go to our partners in Gaza, Majalla 28.

Find out more & order your copy of our Spring 2024 issue 'Gaza! Gaza! Gaza!' here:

arablit.org/2024/05/07/ann…

On episode 8 of #InstantCoffee , we ask Prof Nagla Rizk a lot of questions about data and how it informs the exciting technology-based research projects she works on at A2K For Development. She also talks to us about the pitfalls of poor data, and what the means for our analyses of the world.