Stuck in the 20th Century? Kuwait’s Urbanisation, Transport, and Use of Public Space (Webinar)| Listen on Anghami

Apr 21

Social Media Consumption and Food-Consumption in Contemporary Kuwait

The LSE Middle East Centre hosted a Kuwait Programme workshop, presenting research on the influence of social media on food-consumption behaviours in Kuwait. Kuwait is experiencing public health challenges driven by rising rates of non-communicable nutrition-related diseases such ... Show More

53m 50s

Apr 14

Urban Exclusion in the City

In the final episode of this season, Ahmad Abu Hussien, an urban sociologist from Jordan, brings together academics and practitioners to explore theories of urban planning and design through case studies of Jordan and Dubai. This episode explores the concept of infrastructural ci ... Show More

34m 28s

Mar 31

Creating Real Economic Empowerment for Women in MENA

In this penultimate episode, Yara Shawky Shahin has a frank discussion with her colleague Yasmine D’Alessandro about how to create programmes of real economic empowerment for women in the Middle East and North Africa based on their decades long experience working with internation ... Show More

28m 26s

Apr 2024

The Resilience of Parliamentary Politics in Kuwait (S. 13, Ep. 23)

On this week's episode of the podcast, Courtney Freer of Emory University joins Marc Lynch to discuss her new book, The Resilience of Parliamentary Politics in Kuwait: Parliament, Rentierism, and Society. This book provides an unprecedented holistic treatment of grassroots contem ... Show More

52m 5s

Mar 2022

Tasmeem Doha 2022: Radical Futures | Basma Hamdy x Diane C. Derr x Maysaa Almumin x Denielle Emans

Basma Hamdy, Diane C. Derr, Maysaa Al-Mumin & Denielle Emans talked about the directing processes of Radical Futures.Basma Hamdy is a research-based designer, author, and educator producing work that bridges historical, political, and social issues with archival, documentarian, p ... Show More

32m 34s

Jun 2023

Marielle Risse, "Houseways in Southern Oman" (Routledge, 2022)

Houseways in Southern Oman (Routledge, 2022) explores how houses are created, maintained and conceptualized in southern Oman. Based on long-term research in the Dhofar region, it draws on anthropology, sociology, urban studies and architectural history. The chapters consider phys ... Show More

51m 57s

Aug 2020

Ulrike Freitag, "A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Ulrike Freitag’s A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Cambridge University Press), offers a rich urban and biographical history of Jeddah. Known as the 'Gate to Mecca' or 'Bride of the Red Sea', Jeddah has been a gateway for pilgrims t ... Show More

1h 15m

Mar 2024

Building Successful Modern Arab Cities | Yasser Elsheshtawy

Yasser Elsheshtawy – adjunct professor of architecture at Columbia’s GSAPP and non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington – joins us on the Tasmeem Doha podcast to talk about his keynote speech from the conference “(Re)Constructing Urban Spaces: Unearthin ... Show More

59m 53s

Dec 2019

Book Launch: The Rise of Hybrid Political Islam in Turkey

This book launch highlighted the economic, social and political rise of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) as well as its political resilience over the last sixteen years. Speaker - Sevinc Bermek Sevinc is a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies ... Show More

1h 10m

Mar 2022

Architecture, Climatic Privilege, and Migrant Labour in Singapore

Migration and architecture have emerged as a new topic of research at a global level. Migrant worker dormitories in Singapore, for example, are sites where structural inequities in architecture and legal regulations have had a significant impact on the living conditions of migran ... Show More

20m 31s

Mar 2021

Hawraa Al Hassan, "Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba'thist State" (U Edinburgh Press, 2020)

Hawraa Al Hassan’s Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba’thist State: Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, 1968-2003 (University of Edinburgh Press, 2020) is unique because it both explores discourse concerning women and how women themselves used literature to create ... Show More

54m 54s

Mar 2024

Rem Koolhaas on Architecture

A series of conversations with Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and people who have been part of Qatar’s architecture & culture development journey. In this episode, Her Excellency hosts Dutch architect and professor at Harvard University, Rem Koolhaas. Koolhaas works l ... Show More

28m 36s

Feb 2021

Łukasz Stanek, "Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2020)

In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring modernization to the developing world. Architecture in Global Socialism ... Show More

41m 20s

Stuck in the 20th Century? Kuwait’s Urba...