LSE Middle East Centre
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social
LSE MEC builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region.
Final chance to apply for our Algerian Studies Master’s Dissertation Prize!
Open to Master’s students at UK universities who completed a thesis related to #Algeria in the 2024/25 academic year.
Deadline: 23.59 GMT on 30 November 2025
👉 Apply now: https://bit.ly/486aFCK
Open to Master’s students at UK universities who completed a thesis related to #Algeria in the 2024/25 academic year.
Deadline: 23.59 GMT on 30 November 2025
👉 Apply now: https://bit.ly/486aFCK
Algerian Studies Master's Dissertation Prize
The LSE Middle East Centre and the Society for Algerian Studies run a UK-wide prize for Master's dissertations on Algeria.
www.lse.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Final chance to apply for our Algerian Studies Master’s Dissertation Prize!
Open to Master’s students at UK universities who completed a thesis related to #Algeria in the 2024/25 academic year.
Deadline: 23.59 GMT on 30 November 2025
👉 Apply now: https://bit.ly/486aFCK
Open to Master’s students at UK universities who completed a thesis related to #Algeria in the 2024/25 academic year.
Deadline: 23.59 GMT on 30 November 2025
👉 Apply now: https://bit.ly/486aFCK
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What role does the issue of race play in understanding the question of Palestine?
Join @aycacu.bsky.social next month at this @LSELaw event, which will focus on the colonisation of Palestine as something which cannot be understood outside the grammar of race.
📆 Tuesday 2 December
Join @aycacu.bsky.social next month at this @LSELaw event, which will focus on the colonisation of Palestine as something which cannot be understood outside the grammar of race.
📆 Tuesday 2 December
RACE AND THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE - LSE Law School Events
What role does the issue of race play in understanding the question of Palestine? Drawing on a book of that title edited by the main speaker Lana Tatour (with Ronit Lentin), this event focuses on the…
lselaw.events
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
What role does the issue of race play in understanding the question of Palestine?
Join @aycacu.bsky.social next month at this @LSELaw event, which will focus on the colonisation of Palestine as something which cannot be understood outside the grammar of race.
📆 Tuesday 2 December
Join @aycacu.bsky.social next month at this @LSELaw event, which will focus on the colonisation of Palestine as something which cannot be understood outside the grammar of race.
📆 Tuesday 2 December
Tomorrow, Thurs 27 Nov at 18:30
A few tickets remain for Hanna Al Taher's lecture on German-speaking liberal discourse, 'Palestine and the Limits of Liberal Freedom'. Hosted by the Confronting Staatsräson Collective @lsehumanrights.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-...
A few tickets remain for Hanna Al Taher's lecture on German-speaking liberal discourse, 'Palestine and the Limits of Liberal Freedom'. Hosted by the Confronting Staatsräson Collective @lsehumanrights.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-...
Palestine and the Limits of Liberal Freedom
“Freedom Is Always the Freedom of Those in Power: Palestine and the Limits of Liberal Freedom”
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Tomorrow, Thurs 27 Nov at 18:30
A few tickets remain for Hanna Al Taher's lecture on German-speaking liberal discourse, 'Palestine and the Limits of Liberal Freedom'. Hosted by the Confronting Staatsräson Collective @lsehumanrights.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-...
A few tickets remain for Hanna Al Taher's lecture on German-speaking liberal discourse, 'Palestine and the Limits of Liberal Freedom'. Hosted by the Confronting Staatsräson Collective @lsehumanrights.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-...
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🏆🏆🏆Calling all Masters and Ph.D. students, you still have time to apply for the 2025 Gorgias Book Grant - your chance to win $500 of our titles! What are you waiting for? #awards #mastersdegree #PhD #phdlife #winbooks www.gorgiaspress.com/awards
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November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🏆🏆🏆Calling all Masters and Ph.D. students, you still have time to apply for the 2025 Gorgias Book Grant - your chance to win $500 of our titles! What are you waiting for? #awards #mastersdegree #PhD #phdlife #winbooks www.gorgiaspress.com/awards
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🚨New online event #LSETürkiye
Türkiye in 2025: Structural Continuities Beneath Apparent Transformation
📅 11 Dec | 6pm GMT (9pm TR time)
🎙️ Speakers: Pelin Ayan Musil, Esra Çuhadar, Işık Özel & Buğra Süsler
🔍 Review the year and explore what’s changing (and not) in TR
💻 Register via link👇
Türkiye in 2025: Structural Continuities Beneath Apparent Transformation
📅 11 Dec | 6pm GMT (9pm TR time)
🎙️ Speakers: Pelin Ayan Musil, Esra Çuhadar, Işık Özel & Buğra Süsler
🔍 Review the year and explore what’s changing (and not) in TR
💻 Register via link👇
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
🚨New online event #LSETürkiye
Türkiye in 2025: Structural Continuities Beneath Apparent Transformation
📅 11 Dec | 6pm GMT (9pm TR time)
🎙️ Speakers: Pelin Ayan Musil, Esra Çuhadar, Işık Özel & Buğra Süsler
🔍 Review the year and explore what’s changing (and not) in TR
💻 Register via link👇
Türkiye in 2025: Structural Continuities Beneath Apparent Transformation
📅 11 Dec | 6pm GMT (9pm TR time)
🎙️ Speakers: Pelin Ayan Musil, Esra Çuhadar, Işık Özel & Buğra Süsler
🔍 Review the year and explore what’s changing (and not) in TR
💻 Register via link👇
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#MENA #Events | "Reels of Agency: Women, Faith, and Power on Instagram in Saudi Arabia"
📍@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
📅 28 Nov 2025, 3-4.30 pm
Featuring BRISMES Council Member &
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Hanaa Almoaibed
More info: shorturl.at/pOC1W
📍@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
📅 28 Nov 2025, 3-4.30 pm
Featuring BRISMES Council Member &
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Hanaa Almoaibed
More info: shorturl.at/pOC1W
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
#MENA #Events | "Reels of Agency: Women, Faith, and Power on Instagram in Saudi Arabia"
📍@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
📅 28 Nov 2025, 3-4.30 pm
Featuring BRISMES Council Member &
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Hanaa Almoaibed
More info: shorturl.at/pOC1W
📍@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
📅 28 Nov 2025, 3-4.30 pm
Featuring BRISMES Council Member &
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Hanaa Almoaibed
More info: shorturl.at/pOC1W
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Friends and colleagues in Berlin, this is happening next month (I hope) at FU-Berlin. Please register soon if you would like to attend as space is limited.
@robin-c.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social
@robin-c.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Friends and colleagues in Berlin, this is happening next month (I hope) at FU-Berlin. Please register soon if you would like to attend as space is limited.
@robin-c.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social
@robin-c.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social
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Join us 2 December, 6 pm at @lselaw.bsky.social to launch Race and the Question of Palestine with Lana Tatour.
Ralph Wilde, Neve Gordon, Andrew Murray and I will be in conversation with Lana.
In memory of our Conor Gearty who had planned this panel.
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
Ralph Wilde, Neve Gordon, Andrew Murray and I will be in conversation with Lana.
In memory of our Conor Gearty who had planned this panel.
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
RACE AND THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE - LSE Law School Events
What role does the issue of race play in understanding the question of Palestine? Drawing on a book of that title edited by the main speaker Lana Tatour (with Ronit Lentin), this event focuses on the ...
lselaw.events
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Join us 2 December, 6 pm at @lselaw.bsky.social to launch Race and the Question of Palestine with Lana Tatour.
Ralph Wilde, Neve Gordon, Andrew Murray and I will be in conversation with Lana.
In memory of our Conor Gearty who had planned this panel.
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
Ralph Wilde, Neve Gordon, Andrew Murray and I will be in conversation with Lana.
In memory of our Conor Gearty who had planned this panel.
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
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Why is Sudan—rich in land, livestock, and gold—facing mass hunger?
Join @nisrinelamin.bsky.social at LSE to unpack the extractive politics behind famine.
🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm
📍Hong Kong Theatre & Online
#LSEEvents #Sudan
Join @nisrinelamin.bsky.social at LSE to unpack the extractive politics behind famine.
🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm
📍Hong Kong Theatre & Online
#LSEEvents #Sudan
The politics of hunger in Sudan | Nisrin Elamin
6.30pm Weds 3 Dec | Nisrin Elamin | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
lse.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Why is Sudan—rich in land, livestock, and gold—facing mass hunger?
Join @nisrinelamin.bsky.social at LSE to unpack the extractive politics behind famine.
🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm
📍Hong Kong Theatre & Online
#LSEEvents #Sudan
Join @nisrinelamin.bsky.social at LSE to unpack the extractive politics behind famine.
🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm
📍Hong Kong Theatre & Online
#LSEEvents #Sudan
The Kuwait Programme is inviting applications for LSE-Kuwait Fellowships, allowing Kuwait-based researchers to pursue research relevant to the Kuwait Programme in London at LSE for three months.
Deadline for full applications is 1 January 2026.
More info: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Deadline for full applications is 1 January 2026.
More info: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
November 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The Kuwait Programme is inviting applications for LSE-Kuwait Fellowships, allowing Kuwait-based researchers to pursue research relevant to the Kuwait Programme in London at LSE for three months.
Deadline for full applications is 1 January 2026.
More info: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Deadline for full applications is 1 January 2026.
More info: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
LSE Master’s students, receiving your thesis grades? Our annual Dissertation Prize is now open: if you get a grade of 70 or above for your research on the #MiddleEast, apply & get your hard work recognised.
Deadline 30 Nov 2025, prizes announced Jan 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Deadline 30 Nov 2025, prizes announced Jan 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Master's Dissertation Prize
The LSE Middle East Centre runs a prize for LSE Master's student dissertations.
www.lse.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
LSE Master’s students, receiving your thesis grades? Our annual Dissertation Prize is now open: if you get a grade of 70 or above for your research on the #MiddleEast, apply & get your hard work recognised.
Deadline 30 Nov 2025, prizes announced Jan 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Deadline 30 Nov 2025, prizes announced Jan 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Call for Papers: The Oxford Middle East Review (OMER) seeks submissions for their upcoming issue, themed 'Reconstruction' - deadline 4 January: omerjournal.com/current-call...
November 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Call for Papers: The Oxford Middle East Review (OMER) seeks submissions for their upcoming issue, themed 'Reconstruction' - deadline 4 January: omerjournal.com/current-call...
Our annual Algerian Studies Master’s Dissertation Prize is now open for students at any UK university. If you get a high grade for a thesis related to #Algeria, apply & get your hard work recognised!
Deadline 30 November 2025, prizes announced January 2026, apply here: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Deadline 30 November 2025, prizes announced January 2026, apply here: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Algerian Studies Master's Dissertation Prize
The LSE Middle East Centre and the Society for Algerian Studies run a UK-wide prize for Master's dissertations on Algeria.
www.lse.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Our annual Algerian Studies Master’s Dissertation Prize is now open for students at any UK university. If you get a high grade for a thesis related to #Algeria, apply & get your hard work recognised!
Deadline 30 November 2025, prizes announced January 2026, apply here: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Deadline 30 November 2025, prizes announced January 2026, apply here: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Online Kurdish courses at Missouri State are open to anyone and are taught by well known linguist Michael Chyet (who curated the Library of Congress' Kurdish collection). Sessions are held Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12 noon D.C. time. For more information contact mooklash@yahoo.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Online Kurdish courses at Missouri State are open to anyone and are taught by well known linguist Michael Chyet (who curated the Library of Congress' Kurdish collection). Sessions are held Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12 noon D.C. time. For more information contact mooklash@yahoo.com
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A reminder that the deadline for submissions for the 2026 Leigh Douglas Memorial #Prize is midnight on 15 November 2025.
More details below 👇and on our website: brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp
More details below 👇and on our website: brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp
📢 Submissions are open for the 2026 Leigh Douglas Memorial #Prize awarded to the best #PhD dissertation on a #MiddleEastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British uni between 1 Oct 2024 and 30 Sept 2025.
Deadline: 15 Nov 2025
More info: www.brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp
Deadline: 15 Nov 2025
More info: www.brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A reminder that the deadline for submissions for the 2026 Leigh Douglas Memorial #Prize is midnight on 15 November 2025.
More details below 👇and on our website: brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp
More details below 👇and on our website: brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp
Our annual Master’s Dissertation Prize is now open for LSE students. If you get a grade of 70 or above for your research on the #MiddleEast, apply and get your hard work recognised.
Deadline 30 November 2025, prizes announced January 2026, apply here: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Deadline 30 November 2025, prizes announced January 2026, apply here: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Master's Dissertation Prize
The LSE Middle East Centre runs a prize for LSE Master's student dissertations.
www.lse.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Our annual Master’s Dissertation Prize is now open for LSE students. If you get a grade of 70 or above for your research on the #MiddleEast, apply and get your hard work recognised.
Deadline 30 November 2025, prizes announced January 2026, apply here: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Deadline 30 November 2025, prizes announced January 2026, apply here: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Messages from Gaza: A Fundraiser by White Kite Collective at @stratfordeast.com this Saturday 8 Nov
Following sold-out events at Arcola Theatre, Bush Theatre, Rich Mix & Tara Theatre, White Kite Collective bring a galvanising evening of solidarity to Stratford
www.stratfordeast.com/whats-on/all...
Following sold-out events at Arcola Theatre, Bush Theatre, Rich Mix & Tara Theatre, White Kite Collective bring a galvanising evening of solidarity to Stratford
www.stratfordeast.com/whats-on/all...
Stand with Palestinians: Messages from Gaza
Monologues, poetry, stand-up and other performances, in support of and raising funds for Palestinian causes.
www.stratfordeast.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Messages from Gaza: A Fundraiser by White Kite Collective at @stratfordeast.com this Saturday 8 Nov
Following sold-out events at Arcola Theatre, Bush Theatre, Rich Mix & Tara Theatre, White Kite Collective bring a galvanising evening of solidarity to Stratford
www.stratfordeast.com/whats-on/all...
Following sold-out events at Arcola Theatre, Bush Theatre, Rich Mix & Tara Theatre, White Kite Collective bring a galvanising evening of solidarity to Stratford
www.stratfordeast.com/whats-on/all...
The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda assumes more women leaders participating in peacebuilding will ensure a just peace. Ursula von der Leyen & Kaja Kallas' silence on Gaza & material support for Israel's genocide raises doubts. Aitemad Muhanna-Matar on the blog blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/11/...
Decolonising the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda: Feminist Complicity and the Genocide in Gaza - Middle East Centre
The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda calls for more women in positions of power, under the assumption that women – inherently peaceful – will through participation in peacebuilding and leadershi...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda assumes more women leaders participating in peacebuilding will ensure a just peace. Ursula von der Leyen & Kaja Kallas' silence on Gaza & material support for Israel's genocide raises doubts. Aitemad Muhanna-Matar on the blog blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/11/...
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CBRL invites applications for Workshop Grants! 📑
🔹 Deadline: Friday - 16 Jan 2026
For more details and to apply:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-wo...
🔹 Deadline: Friday - 16 Jan 2026
For more details and to apply:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-wo...
November 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
CBRL invites applications for Workshop Grants! 📑
🔹 Deadline: Friday - 16 Jan 2026
For more details and to apply:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-wo...
🔹 Deadline: Friday - 16 Jan 2026
For more details and to apply:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-wo...
A centre in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq seeks to document and preserve Kurdish archival materials for researchers to better understand the history of the Kurds. Marouf Cabi for the blog blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/11/...
The Zheen Centre for Documentation and Research: Preserving Archival Materials for Kurdish Historical Research - Middle East Centre
An archive in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq seeks to preserve and restore archival material essential to understanding Kurdish history.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A centre in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq seeks to document and preserve Kurdish archival materials for researchers to better understand the history of the Kurds. Marouf Cabi for the blog blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/11/...
On Monday 17 November Paul Frosh will speak on Israeli protest since October 7, launching the exhibition 'Red alert on democracy: Photographing protests and civil resistance in Israel before and after October 7' at LSE's Atrium Gallery www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-co...
The Wounds in the Square: Photography, Political Despair and the Israeli Protests against the War in Gaza
Photo exhibition on Israeli Protests against the War in Gaza
www.lse.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
On Monday 17 November Paul Frosh will speak on Israeli protest since October 7, launching the exhibition 'Red alert on democracy: Photographing protests and civil resistance in Israel before and after October 7' at LSE's Atrium Gallery www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-co...
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Delighted that my Social & Political Sciences colleague, Dr Marianna Charountaki, has written a blog for the LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social. Titled ‘From Inquiry to Theorisation: Towards a Holistic Framework in International Relations’, Marianna’s essay is available below.
From Inquiry to Theorisation: Towards a Holistic Framework in International Relations - Middle East Centre
What explains the behaviour – and relative success – of certain armed non-state actors (NSAs) in the Middle East? A new typology suggests groups like HTS and the PLO are better understood as 'states-t...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Delighted that my Social & Political Sciences colleague, Dr Marianna Charountaki, has written a blog for the LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social. Titled ‘From Inquiry to Theorisation: Towards a Holistic Framework in International Relations’, Marianna’s essay is available below.
Wednesday 3 December – @nisrinelamin.bsky.social will situate Sudan’s famine within a broader historical context of neoliberal restructuring, US aid policies, foreign land investments & resource extractivism. Hosts @lsehumanrights.bsky.social & @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/events/the-p...
The politics of hunger in Sudan | Nisrin Elamin
6.30pm Weds 3 Dec | Nisrin Elamin | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Wednesday 3 December – @nisrinelamin.bsky.social will situate Sudan’s famine within a broader historical context of neoliberal restructuring, US aid policies, foreign land investments & resource extractivism. Hosts @lsehumanrights.bsky.social & @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/events/the-p...
Regional dynamics have overtaken theory, making it vital not just to include them in IR, but to rethink how we do so. Actorhood is key – we must distinguish types of non-state actors rather than grouping them all under armed violence. –Marianna Charountaki blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/10/...
From Inquiry to Theorisation: Towards a Holistic Framework in International Relations - Middle East Centre
What explains the behaviour – and relative success – of certain armed non-state actors (NSAs) in the Middle East? A new typology suggests groups like HTS and the PLO are better understood as 'states-t...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Regional dynamics have overtaken theory, making it vital not just to include them in IR, but to rethink how we do so. Actorhood is key – we must distinguish types of non-state actors rather than grouping them all under armed violence. –Marianna Charountaki blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/10/...
Why does policy reform happen? By studying Kuwait's education system through a policy sociology lens we can better understand the socio-political and bureaucratic context in which policies are developed. @edusociologist.bsky.social for the blog blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/10/...
Beyond the Rhetoric of Reform: Examining Kuwait’s Education System Through a Policy Sociology Lens - Middle East Centre
Why does policy reform happen? By studying Kuwait's education system through a policy sociology lens, connecting policies to the purpose of education in Kuwaiti society at large, we can better underst...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Why does policy reform happen? By studying Kuwait's education system through a policy sociology lens we can better understand the socio-political and bureaucratic context in which policies are developed. @edusociologist.bsky.social for the blog blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/10/...