Speaker: Fadi Bardawil, University of North Carolina
Discussant: Fuad Musallam, LSE
Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE
Drawing on the theorisation of the Marxist group Socialist Lebanon, Fadi Bardawil looks at how Lebanon's simultaneous economic integration into the Arab area through its services-based mode of production, and its isolation from Arab political cause ... Show More
Jun 15
Kurdish Studies Conference: Developing Kurdish Studies as a scholarly field
This plenary session, delivered as part of the 2026 Kurdish Studies Conference by Marlene Schäfers, University of Utrecht and Kurdish Studies Journal and Welat Zeydanlıoğlu, Kurdish Studies Network, was a conversation about the state of Kurdish Studies as a scholarly field. The s ... Show More
1h 25m
May 2022
Lebanon the weak, cannibalized state whose citizens still hope
Dr. Jamil Mouawad, lecturer in the Political Studies and Public Administration Dept at AUB, has studied Lebanese politics for decades; he is publishing a new book on the nature of the state in Lebanon and how its citizens interact with the state. He explains his theory of Lebanon ... Show More
22m 49s
Jan 2022
Economic failures rooted in political weakness stymie Lebanon’s future
Economics professor and former director of the Institute of Financial Economics, Simon Neaime, sees hard times ahead as Lebanon’s problematic political class shows no will to fix the country’s economic decline. He sees added pressures from regional stresses of poverty, inequality ... Show More
23m 19s
Sep 2020
Episode 92 - Civil state or civil strife?
Discussion of rising sectarianism in Lebanon begins at 09:20. Nizar and Ben are joined by Ibrahim Halawi, teaching fellow in international relations at Royal Holloway - University of London, to analyze rising sectarian discourse, its role as part of the counterrevolution, the civ ... Show More
51m 31s
