🚨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👇

#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

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

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...

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

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-...

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-...

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-...

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 [email protected]

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

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-...

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...

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/...

CBRL invites applications for Workshop Grants! 📑 🔹 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/...

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...

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...

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/...

Join us for the launch of the highly anticipated new book by @brankomilan.bsky.social 📖 He reveals the seismic shifts that are shaping our world, with global neoliberalism on its last legs. As the status quo of the past fifty years crumbles, he asks what remains in its wake? 🎟️ buff.ly/ggNJ4pW

A new curriculum on spatial politics in #Palestine aims to provide general enquiry with empirical rigour, a diversity of critical Palestinian perspectives in English and Arabic, and topics of regional relevance towards co-learning. Dena Qaddumi for the blog blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/10/...

This month 11 close relatives of Dr Ahmed Abu Shaban (Al Azhar University, Gaza), co-Principal Investigator on our ‘Coping with Food Insecurity in Gaza’ project, were murdered – 4 adults and 7 children. Our deepest condolences for this grievous loss www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

The UK's proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation has been widely criticised as a government overreach. Nathan Whetton @lselaw.bsky.social traces the history of labelling civil disobedience as “extremist”, “radical” & threats to “national security” @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

London Palestine Film Festival returns 14–28 Nov with a line-up of UK premieres and documentaries, including The Voice of Hind Rajab & The Mission. Book your tickets now to explore Palestinian life, culture, and resistance through cinema: www.palestinefilm.org.uk

Iraq has long been more than the cradle of civilisation, but also a hub of culture, dialogue, and coexistence. Writing for the MEC blog, former Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi argues the country must reclaim this role blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/10/...

‘It would be a great loss’: London’s oldest Islamic bookshop at risk of closure

The @h-diplo.bsky.social published a roundtable on Professor Fawaz Gerges' book What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East. 🔗Read the review: issforum.org/roundtables/... #AcademicSky #PoliSky @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social

From a PhD student to Co-Vice President & Chair of the Society's Committee for Academic Freedom, watch to Dr Lewis Turner @newcastleuni.bsky.social tell us more about his BRISMES journey: youtube.com/watch?v=2h9S... Get involved. Sign up for membership here: www.brismes.ac.uk/membership

Saturday 8 November 2025: Join New Cultural Exchanges for a one-day conference titled 'Cultural Legacies in the Middle East: Past & Present', launching this interdisciplinary network of scholars, educators, and cultural practitioners. Registration: forms.office.com/e/1aVSck30ma

This #OpenAccessWeek LSE Press are pleased to share that our open access books and journals have been accessed over 2 million times! Read our latest blog post reflecting on this milestone: https://bit.ly/4npub1j #OpenAccess #OAWeek #LSEPress

We're delighted to welcome Professor Anthony Bogues to LSE tonight! Drawing from various radical anti-colonial thinkers, his talk will posit a history of liberalism and its deep relationship to illiberalism, raising questions of the figure of the human and of life itself.

We were delighted to host the launch of Professor John Chalcraft's book, From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization (University of California Press, 2025). 👂🏿 If you missed the event, you can now listen to the recording on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q816...

📢Event announcement! 👻Spirit [Geist] Has Broken with the World... 🗓️ Friday 31 October ⏰4pm to 5.30pm 📍 LSE Join us for a fascinating conversation with Professor Buck-Morss, co-hosted with the London Political Theory Network. Sign-up required. 👇🏼 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spirit-gei...

Join us for an urgent conversation with @afafjabiri.bsky.social, discussing Palestinian women’s experiences and politcial life under conditions of settler colonialism and forced displacement! Chaired by @hsw.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

October marks #BlackHistoryMonth! Read @alktaif.bsky.social's @peacerep.bsky.social paper on the community of #AfroIraqis and how they have preserved their history and culture in the face of 'non-memory'. peacerep.org/publication/...

#Iraq’s unprecedented repatriation of 20,000 ISIS-linked families from #Syria’s Al-Hol camp reveals deep challenges. Returnees face documentation barriers, social stigma, economic hardship & limited support. Urgent reforms are needed for sustainable integration. @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social

NEW✨ October is UK #BlackHistoryMonth @blackhistorymonth.org.uk To celebrate, we’ve compiled a list of 19 exceptional books by Black authors and books about Black history, culture and experience, recommended by members of staff across LSE. Read it below! #BHM #BookRecommendations

What happens to refugees when they can finally leave the camp? For PeaceRep–Iraq, @kamaranpalani.bsky.social examines the challenges residents of Syria's Al-Hol camp face attempting to integrate in Iraq blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/10/...

📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference! The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field. Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025. www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

Thanks to all speakers for their useful insights and students for joining our annual Student Careers Panel and Reception last week! 💌 Sign up to our mailing list for more events and MEC activities: t.co/bQXzfKrXhw @tizianaleone.bsky.social @lseid.bsky.social @cwoodcraft.bsky.social @jbs.cam.ac.uk

How did early modern and modern #Kurdish historians imagine the nation through their histories? In a new blog, Marouf Cabi explores how their works in Persian and Sorani forged a Kurdish national narrative and challenged Eurocentric historiography.

What are the financial and socioeconomic challenges faced by infertility patients in #Kuwait? A new paper by Mariam Behbehani highlights these burdens and calls for the creation of an authority to support couples in their fertility care-seeking journey. eprints.lse.ac.uk/128617/

Does Ahmed al-Sharaa’s rise mark a transition for #Syria, or the entrenchment of Islamist authoritarianism with global consequences? In a new blog, Azad Deewanee explores this question and what it means for Syria's future and beyond.

Upcoming event: Professor John Chalcraft launches his new book 'From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization'. The book presents a new theory which can link together diverse popular struggles amid the crises of the contemporary world.

How can those who oppose neoliberal capitalism, colonialism, and neofascism overcome divisions to build for fundamental social transformation? Join Professor John Chalcraft on 15 October for the launch of his new book, which aims to offer an answer to this vexing question.

In this paper by @aycacu.bsky.social on moral judgment and genocide in Palestine, Arendt and Scott are brought into dialogue to confront the ethics of responsibility, complicity, and redress in our present. Read the full article here ⬇️

Palestinians lack a coherent territory and a popular leadership.

📣 #Public #event announcement! 💡 Thinking Popular Mobilization with Gramsci 📅 Wednesday 15 October, 5.30pm to 7pm, #LSE 📖 Book launch and discussion of Professor John Chalcraft's book 📧 Sign up required 👉🏽https://www.lse.ac.uk/government/events/2025/Thinking-Popular-Mobilization-with-Gramsci