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LSE Middle East
@LSEMiddleEast
LSE MEC builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region.
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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…
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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…
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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
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'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…
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It’s official 🎟 The ticket line for #LSEFestival 2024: Power and Politics is now open!
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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
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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…
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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…
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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
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'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
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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…
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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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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.