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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 regi... Read more

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Colonial Control in Algeria: French Security and Intelligence Services

Colonial Control in Algeria: French Security and Intelligence Services

Speaker: Rabah Aissaoui, University of LeicesterChair: John King, Society for Algerian StudiesIn this talk, Dr Aissaoui ... Read more

28 Jan 2013

1hr 20mins

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The Fight Against ISIS: Kurds on the Front Line

The Fight Against ISIS: Kurds on the Front Line

Speaker: Lahur Talabany, Zanyari AgencyChair: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle East CentreSince ISIS' occupation of Iraqi territor... Read more

6 Oct 2016

1hr 18mins

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Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel

Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel

Speaker: Ian Black, LSE Middle East CentreDiscussant: Tom Phillips, Royal College of Defence Studies Chair: Toby Dodge, ... Read more

29 Nov 2017

1hr 29mins

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Revisiting the Arab Spring in Bahrain

Revisiting the Arab Spring in Bahrain

Speaker: Abdulhadi Khalaf, Lund UniversityChair: John Chalcraft, LSEIn this seminar, Abdulhadi Khalaf revisits the Bahra... Read more

8 Dec 2015

1hr 52mins

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Middle East Border Geopolitics: Established and Emerging Themes

Middle East Border Geopolitics: Established and Emerging Themes

Speaker: Richard Schofield, King's College LondonChair: Madawi Al-Rasheed, LSE Middle East CentreIn trying to make sense... Read more

24 Feb 2015

1hr 19mins

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Alternative Universalisms? Contemporary Turkish Discourses on Culture in International Relations

Alternative Universalisms? Contemporary Turkish Discourses on Culture in International Relations

Speaker: Katerina Dalacoura, LSEChair: Zeynep Kaya, LSE Middle East CentreBuilding on a long intellectual tradition goin... Read more

2 Mar 2016

1hr 27mins

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The 1953 Coup in Iran: About Oil or Communism?

The 1953 Coup in Iran: About Oil or Communism?

There has been much discussion whether the 1953 should be understood in the context of the Cold War or that of economic ... Read more

31 May 2019

1hr 49mins

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Kurdish Women Fighters: A Path Out of Patriarchy?

Kurdish Women Fighters: A Path Out of Patriarchy?

Speaker: Güneş Murat Tezcür, University of Central FloridaChair: Zeynep Kaya, LSE Middle East CentreOver the last three ... Read more

7 Feb 2018

40mins

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Algeria's Belle Epoque: Memories of the 1970s

Algeria's Belle Epoque: Memories of the 1970s

Speaker: Ed McAllister, University of OxfordChair: John King, Society for Algerian StudiesFrom the perspective of a work... Read more

21 Oct 2015

1hr 30mins

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Rentier Islamism: The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf

Rentier Islamism: The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf

Speaker: Courtney Freer, LSE Kuwait ProgrammeChair: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle East CentreMuslim Brotherhood affiliates in t... Read more

20 Nov 2017

42mins

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The Kurds and the Conflict in Syria

The Kurds and the Conflict in Syria

Speaker: Saleh Muslim Mohamed, Democratic Union Party (PYD)Chair: Robert Lowe, LSE MECIt is nine months since Kurds took... Read more

20 Nov 2017

1hr 1min

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Understanding The Drivers Of Conflict In Iraq

Understanding The Drivers Of Conflict In Iraq

Speakers: Toby Dodge, Zeynep Kaya and Jessica Watkins, LSE Middle East Centre; Renad Mansour; Chatham House.It has now b... Read more

5 Nov 2018

1hr 22mins

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The AKP and Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East

The AKP and Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East

Speakers: Cengiz Çandar, Radikal; Zeynep Kaya, LSE Middle East CentreChair: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle East CentreTurkey ha... Read more

18 Apr 2016

1hr 12mins

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Lebanon's Protests: A Society Turning Against the System

Lebanon's Protests: A Society Turning Against the System

With continuous protests ongoing across Lebanon for the last two weeks, this event will analyse this largest demonstrati... Read more

5 Nov 2019

1hr 32mins

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Israeli-Gulf Relations and Changing Middle Eastern Geopolitics

Israeli-Gulf Relations and Changing Middle Eastern Geopolitics

In recent years Israel has forged closer links with Arab Gulf states with which it has no diplomatic relations, unlike E... Read more

1 Feb 2019

1hr 21mins

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Four Decades of Reporting Change in the Middle East

Four Decades of Reporting Change in the Middle East

Speaker: Jim Muir, BBC News and LSE Middle East Centre Visiting Senior FellowChair: Ian Black, LSE Middle East Centre Vi... Read more

21 Jan 2019

1hr 28mins

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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

Speaker: Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern UniversityDiscussant: Malu HalasaChair: Rahaf Aldoughli, University of ManchesterT... Read more

21 Mar 2018

1hr 31mins

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Egypt as Effigy: Predatory Power, Hijacked History, and the Devolution of Revolution

Egypt as Effigy: Predatory Power, Hijacked History, and the Devolution of Revolution

* We apologise for the abrupt ending of this podcast. The last few minutes of the recording were corrupted.Speaker: Adel... Read more

24 Jan 2018

1hr 27mins

Ranked #19

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Updating 'A Modern History of the Kurds'

Updating 'A Modern History of the Kurds'

Speakers: David McDowall and Zeynep Kaya, LSE Middle East Centre.David McDowall’s ground-breaking modern history of the ... Read more

14 Nov 2018

1hr 15mins

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The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts

The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts

This event launches The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts, written by Harriet Allsopp and Wla... Read more

18 Sep 2019

1hr 34mins

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