LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts

LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts

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Urban Exclusion in the City

In the final episode of this season, Ahmad Abu Hussien, an urban sociologist from Jordan, brings together academics and practitioners to explore theories of urban planning and design through case studies of Jordan and Dubai. This episode explores the concept of infrastructural ci ...  Show more

Creating Real Economic Empowerment for Women in MENA

In this penultimate episode, Yara Shawky Shahin has a frank discussion with her colleague Yasmine D’Alessandro about how to create programmes of real economic empowerment for women in the Middle East and North Africa based on their decades long experience working with internation ...  Show more

Gendering the Archive: A Catalyst for Change in Women’s Rights in Egypt

In this episode, Diana Magdy, a gender equality specialist, feminist researcher and oral historian has a conversation with Professor Hoda Elsadda unpacking the politics of archiving, revealing archives as spaces of power and resistance rather than neutral repositories. Diana Magd ...  Show more

'Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed' Book Launch

Return of Tyranny explains why counterrevolutions both emerge and succeed, marshalling original data on counterrevolutions worldwide since 1900. It also offers a fresh perspective and new evidence on the reversal of Egypt’s 2011 revolution, one of the most prominent recent episod ...  Show more

Understanding the Middle Eastern Family, Identity, and Politics through Queer Studies

By bringing together academics and journalists that utilise gender and media studies, as well as history and international relations, this interdisciplinary panel will speak to the relationship between the family and nation-building, the role of media and advertising in represent ...  Show more