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Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa

With hardening authoritarianism and state capture by militias exacerbating the challenges faced by providers of development and political aid across the Middle East and North Africa, how can aid be made more effective? Can donors overcome the limitations of their outdated assista ... Show More

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Sep 8

Paths Made by Walking: The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran

This event was the launch of 'Paths Made by Walking: The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran' by Amina Tawasil. This groundbreaking ethnography on Iranian howzevi (seminarian) women reveals how ideologies of womanhood, institutions, and Islamic practices have played a pivotal role in r ... Show More

42m 36s

Sep 4

The Kurdish Issue in the Middle East's New Turning Point

This keynote lecture delivered by Professor Hamit Bozarslan took place during the Kurdish Studies Conference organised by the LSE Middle East Centre and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. An expert in the Middle East, Turkey and ... Show More

1h 25m

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

Nov 2020

Authoritarian or Revolutionary? Reflections on the Nature of the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Maryam Alemzadeh (Princeton) Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (St Andrews), author of The Quest for Authority in Iran: a history of the presidency from revolution to Rouhani (2017), give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. Chaired Professor Edmund Herzig (Faculty of Or ... Show More

52m 17s

Jun 2020

Bonus: The Saudi-led Blockade of Qatar 3 Years On: The geopolitical and media landscape

The recorded live webinar from 11 June on the current political and media landscapes of the Gulf 3 years after the Gulf crisis first began. Our speakers explored questions such as: How have Saudi Arabia and the UAE’s calculations failed and how is Qatar faring today? Where do oth ... Show More

54m 17s

Aug 2021

Mark Farha, "Lebanon: The Rise and Fall of a Secular State under Siege" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Why has secularism faced such challenges in the Middle East and in Lebanon in particular? In light of dominating headlines about the spread of sectarianism and the so-called death of Arab secularism, Mark Farha addresses the need for a thorough examination of the history of secul ... Show More

54m 51s

Feb 2019

Ahmad Atif Ahmad, "Pitfalls of Scholarship: Lessons from Islamic Studies" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)

Ahmad Atif Ahmad’s Pitfalls of Scholarship: Lessons from Islamic Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) is a unique reflection on the field of Islamic studies. It is not quite a memoir, although it is reflective of Islamic studies, academia, and higher education in general. It is al ... Show More

1h 8m

Feb 2014

Islamic Architecture

This major essay series continues as leading thinkers and practitioners share their knowledge and passion for the Golden Age of Islam. Dr. Sussan Babaie from the Courtauld Institute is an expert in Islamic architecture. She turns the spotlight on two significant monuments of the ... Show More

14m 28s

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

Oct 2023

The Caliph and The Imman & REMENA (S. 13, Ep. 5)

On this week's episode of the podcast, Toby Matthiesen of the University of Bristol joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new book, The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism. This book is an authoritative account of Islam's schism that for centuries has shaped events in ... Show More

1h 16m

Apr 2024

Sharia Law, the State & Modernity’s Moral Predicament | Wael Hallaq

<p>Renowned professor of ethics, law and political thought and leading scholar of Islamic Legal Studies, Dr Wael Hallaq, joins us on this episode of the afikra podcast to discuss Sharia law, the modern state, Legal Orientalism, and the idea of a "stateless" yet still orderly worl ... Show More

1h 13m

Rentier Islamism: The Role of the Muslim...