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Approaches to Reforming the Iraqi Economy amid Popular Protests (Report Launch)

Tuesday 3 December | 18:00 - 19:30 | Ali Al-Mawlawi, Al-Bayan Centre, Toby Dodge, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳; Alia Moubayed

Yazidis and ISIS: The Causes and Consequences of Sexual Violence in Conflict (Report Launch)

Thursday 28 November | 17:30 - 19:00 | Zeynep Kaya, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Middle East Centre

Methodological Approaches in Kurdish Studies: Theoretical and Practical Insights from the Field (Book Launch)

Thursday 21 November | 16:30 - 18:00 | Bahar Baser, Coventry University; Yasin Duman, Coventry University; Francis O'Connor, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt; Mark Sinan Winrow, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳; Begum Zorlu, City, University of London 

Current Developments in North and East Syria with Ilham Ehmed

Tuesday 12 November | 16:00 - 17:00 | Ilham Ehmed, Syrian Decmoratic Council

Truths and Lies in the Middle East: Memoirs of a Veteran Journalist, 1952-2012 (Book Launch)

Monday 11 November | 18:00 - 19:30 | Alain Gresh, Publication Director, Orient XXI 

Lebanon's Protests: A Society Turning Against the System

Monday 4 November | 18:00 - 19:30 | Sophie Chamas, SOAS; Jamil Mouawad, AUB; Hicham Safieddine, KCL 

Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Iraq: Responses and Reparations

Tuesday 8 October | 18:00 –19:30 | Güley Bor, International Lawyer, Researcher and Consultant; Dr. Ali Akram Al-Bayati, Founder and President of Turkmen Rescue Foundation

"I am the Revolution: Film Screening"

Thursday 3 October | 17:00 - 19:00 | Benedetta Argentieri; Independent Journalist and Director, Elif Sarican; Student and Kurdish Activist

The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts (Book Launch)

Thursday 5 September | 16:00 –17:30 | Wladimir van Wilgenburg, Journalist and Independent Researcher

A Fragmented Landscape: Barriers to Independent Media in Iraq

Tuesday 11 June | 18:00 - 19:30 | Aida Al-Kaisy, SOAS University of London

Monday 10 June | 18:30 -20:00 | Kholoud Mansour, Wejdan Nassif and Lina Wafai, Syrian Women’s Political Movement (SWPM)

The Kurdish Women’s Movement: On Revolution, Militarism and Body Politics

Tuesday 4 June | 16:00 - 17:30 | Isabel Käser, Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS University of London

The 1953 Coup in Iran: About Oil or Communism?

Wednesday 29 May | 18:30 - 20:00 | Ervand Abrahamian, Baruch College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York

Paving the Way: The politics of Turkey’s central government spending under AKP rule

Thursday 23 May | 16:00 –17:30 | Davide Luca, Cambridge University and ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Middle East Centre

Gendering Settler-Colonialism and Cultural Production in Palestine/Israel through Palestinian Music Videos

Tuesday 14 May | 16:30–18:00 | Polly Withers, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

Friday, 3 May | 13:00–15:00 | Hugh Roberts, Tufts University. 

Thursday 2 May | 15:00–16:30 | Sara Salem, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

Satellite Sectarianisation or Plain Old Partisanship? Inciting Violence in the Arab Mainstream Media

Wednesday 1 May | 18:00–19:30 | Jessica Watkins, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Middle East Centre

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Thursday 21 March | 16:00 - 17:30 | Oren Yiftachel, Ben-Gurion University, Israel and Visiting Leverhulme Professor, UCL, UK

Mediterranean Production Networks and the Economies of North Africa

Thursday 21 March | 16:00 - 17:30 | Shamel Azmeh, University of Manchester and ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Middle East Centre; Abeer Elshennawy, The American University in Cairo. 

Civil Society in Algeria: Activism, Identity and the Democratic Process

Tuesday 19 March | 18:00 - 19:30 | Jessica Northey, Coventry University

The Prince and the Minotaur: Egypt in the Labyrinth of Counter-Revolution

Monday 18 March | 17:15 - 19:15 | Brecht de Smet, Ghent University

Monday 11 March | 18:30 - 20:00 | Harvey Molotoch, New York University; Davide Ponzini, Politecnico di Milano; Fran Tonkiss, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

Between Institutional Resilience to the Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Resilience of Syrian Refugees

Two-Day Workshop: Thursday 7 – Friday 8 March

Middle East Careers Panel

Thursday 7 March | 17:15 - 18:30 | Omar Al-Ghazzi, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳; Sophie Rudland, IB Tauris; Priscilla Toffano, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Middle East Centre and IMF; Angeline Turner, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Preventing Statelessness among Migrants in North Africa

Friday 1 March | 08:30–17:00

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Transitional Justice in Israel-Palestine: Lessons from Colombia

Thursday 28 February | 16:00–17:30 | Yoav Kapshuk, Kinneret College

Tuesday 26 February | 18:30–20:00 | Mehammed Mack, Smith College; Cenk Ozbay, Sabanci University; Roula Seghaier, Kohl Journal; Silvia Quattrini, Chouf.

The Return of the Military: Hybridity, Duality, and Political Activism

Wednesday 13 February | 18:30–20:00 | Yezid Sayigh, Carnegie Middle East Center

Documenting Syria: Filmmaking, Video Activism and Revolution

Tuesday 12 February | 18:00–19:30 | Joshka Wessels, Lund University

The Transboundary Politics of the Yarmouk River

Tuesday 5 February | 18:00-19:30 | Mark Zeitoun, University of East Anglia

Intellectuals, Fellahin and Emancipatory Politics in Rural Egypt: A Gramscian Reading

Monday 4 February | 17:15-19:15 | Francesco de Lellis, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Israel's Basic Law: Motivations and Ramifications

Wednesday 30 January | 18:00–19:30 | Amal Jamal, Tel Aviv University

Israeli-Gulf Relations and Changing Middle Eastern Geopolitics

Tuesday 22 January | 18:00–19:30 | Ian Black, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Middle East Centre

Four Decades of Reporting Change in the Middle East

Wednesday 16 January | 18:30–20:00 | Jim Muir, BBC News and ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Middle East Centre