In this episode, we speak with Michelle Weitzel about soundscapes, affect, emotions, the Arab Uprisings, and her recent article in MELG: "Engineering Affect: Street Politics and Microfoundations of Governance", which can be found here: https://brill.com/view/journals/melg/11/2/article-p203_203.xml
Jul 10
Episode 24: International Relations of the Middle East with Dr. F Gregory Gause III
In this episode, Ezra Karmel speaks with Prof. F Gregory Gause III. The discussion focuses on current developments in the Middle East (including the recent conflict involving Iran, Israel, and the United States) and considers how Gause's analytical framework helps us understand c ... Show More
43m 25s
Jun 2025
Episode 23 – Militarization in Jordan with Dr. Pete Moore and Dr. Sean Yom
In this episode, Ezra Karmel speaks with Sean Yom and Pete Moore about their recent special issue in MELG, "Reconceptualizing Security and Political Economy in the Modern Middle East," which includes articles on Syria and Yemen. We focus on their own contribution in the issue, wh ... Show More
1h 6m
Jun 2024
Episode 22 – MENA Local Governance with Dr Ellen Lust, Dr Intissar Kherigi, & Dr Christiana Parreira
In collaboration with the Governance Uncovered podcast of the Governance and Local Development Institute (GLD), Ellen Lust moderates a discussion on decentralisation and local governance in the Middle East and North Africa, focusing in particular on Tunisia, Lebanon, and Jordan. ... Show More
45m 36s
Sep 2019
Episode 55 - Public spaces
Discussion of public spaces and urban activism begins at 09:30.
Nizar is joined by Mona Harb, professor of urban studies, planning, and politics at the American University of Beirut to talk about the fracturing of Beirut's public space, its social consequences, and how urban acti ... Show More
45 m
Aug 2020
Episode 6 - What's Next for the Protest Movement?
<p>On the sixth episode, Nadim El Kak is joined by sociologist and LCPS Fellow Dr Rima Majed to discuss recent political developments following the Beirut explosion including reemerging protests, alternative resistance strategies, geopolitics, government resignation, state violen ... Show More
36m 38s
Jul 2019
On the Intersection of Politics and Visual Culture
In this episode, we hear from Sara Creta, visual journalist and research fellow at the Institute of Future Media and Journalism at Dublin City University and Nicholas Mirzoeff who is a writer, visual activist and Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU, working at th ... Show More
7m 44s
Dec 2019
Episode 65 - Class dynamics & organizing
Ben and Nizar are joined by Rima Majed, assistant professor of sociology at the American University of Beirut to discuss recent attempts to sectarianize the protests, the class dynamics at play, and how protesters are coming together to organize based on profession. Also covered: ... Show More
51m 23s
<p>في حلقة هذا الأسبوع، تستضيف كارول أبي غانم عالمة الاجتماع والخبيرة في العمل اللاعنفي الدكتورة أوغاريت يونان للحديث عن مقاربتها للتنظيم السياسي، استراتيجيات النضال المختلفة، انتفاضة ١٧ تشرين، ولاستخلاص دروس من تجارب تاريخية أخرى في العالم.</p>
<p>In this week's episode, Carol A ... Show More
