Iraqi women photographers are building a counter-archive that challenges dominant climate narratives.
✍️ Khamael Al Safi, Zainab Mahdi and Noor Omer write about the photographers capturing local women’s experiences of climate change for the MEC blog.
Read the blog here: https://ow.ly/51zT50Ypzvz
Where will the US-Israeli war in Iran end?
Our latest newsletter is out now 📬 considering this question and the broader geopolitical history of the Middle East.
We also share posts to mark Women's History Month and International Women's Day.
Read more 👉 us21.campaign-archive.com?e=4a56edb876...
Join us and @lsegender.bsky.social for an event exploring how gender, culture, literature and practices of writing both shape - and are shaped by - Kurdish lifeworlds.
🗓️ Wednesday March 18
⏰ 5:30-7:00 pm
📍 MAR.1.04 (Marshall Building), LSE
Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/lsede...
📢 We are looking forward to the AFSEE Keynote Lecture on Wednesday 18 March!
In the event, Turkish-British writer Elif Shafak and AFSEE Fellow Lily Jamaludin will discuss our world today, the stories that bring us together & the silences that keep us apart.
Iraqi feminist activist Yanar Mohammed was shot and killed outside her home in Baghdad by unidentified gunmen the day before Iraqi Women’s Day. For the blog, @alktaif.bsky.social & @haydersh.bsky.social remember Yanar blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2026/03/...
Politics in the Middle East have shifted: alongside global powers, states like Turkey, Iran & influential non‑state actors now shape outcomes.
Sustainable political change requires frameworks that involve all key actors in the region’s future, writes Marianna Charountaki @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social
The image shows a poster which includes details of the call for papers for the DAVO Congress 2026. Full details of the call can be found on the DAVO website: https://davo1.de/en/en-call-for-papers-davo-congress-2026-10-12-september-2026-lmu-munich/
The #CallforPapers for the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) Congress 2026 is open!
Highlights include a conference keynote by Prof Abdel Razzaq Takriti and a featured panel on #AcademicFreedom and #MiddleEastStudies.
🗓️22 March 2026
➡️ davo1.de/en/en-call-f...
Episode 2 of our new season of Instant Coffee is now live 🎧
Manar Alzraiy, a Palestinian education professional dedicated to resilience and equity in crisis-affected schools, brings together her colleagues to talk about keeping education going in Gaza.
Listen here: https://ow.ly/EyRS50Ypz3L
Another brilliant and timely panel at @lsegender.bsky.social with three fantastic thinkers, taking place on 18 March 2026 at 5.30 PM:
Gender and Conflict: Kurdish Narratives
Co-hosted with @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social
You can register here to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/lsede...
LSE's @omarghazzi.bsky.social quoted in this @nytimes.com piece on how the UAE's leadership is attempting to project calm through the current crisis, via social media www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...
#events | BRISMES invites you to its next webinar “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Roundtable on War, Repression, #Iran and International Solidarity.”
🗓️ 12 March | 15:00 | Online
Fee and open to all but registration essential: shorturl.at/wzYy6
How can we keep education going in Gaza?
In the second episode of our podcast collaboration with @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social, AFSEE Fellow Manar Alzraiy and colleagues discuss what is needed to rebuild education in Gaza both physically and intellectually.
🎧 Listen to the episode: buff.ly/tMKuMe8
We are pleased to announce the winners of the LSE Master's Dissertation Prize: Razan Elshazali (1st Prize) & Sally Itani (2nd Prize) 🎉
Learn more about our 2025 prizewinners: https://www.lse.ac.uk/middleeastcentre/about/dissertation-prizes/masters-dissertation-prize-2025
📣 The LSE Middle East Centre 2025 Annual Report is now available to read online.
Read about the Centre's highlights, research and activities over the past year and a half: https://www.lse.ac.uk/asset-library/Middle-East-Centre/Documents/AnnualReport2025.pdf
Happening today!
We are excited to be joined by Professor Mona Fawaz this evening as she delivers our Annual CITY Lecture. Her talk interrogates the normative foundations of progressive planning in the context of the 2020 Port explosion in #Beirut.
🚨 Applications for our 2025-2026 Nonresident Fellowships close today at 11:59 PM EST!
If you are an early or mid-career advocate keen on engaging in the MENA policy space, apply today and don't miss this unique one-year opportunity: timep.org/2026/02/02/o...
Last month, we hosted the launch of Malika Zeghal's book, The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East, with @lseechist.bsky.social.
Missed it? You can watch the discussion here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=keMk...
@shertog.bsky.social @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social
Tune in to the first episode of our new season of Instant Coffee podcast!
Hamidreza Vasheghanifarahani (@afsee-lse.bsky.social) speaks with Azadeh Sobout and Rindala about how transnational solidarity networks can strengthen social change efforts.
🎧 Listen here: soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeas...
Join us on Tuesday March 3rd for the launch of @kbclarke.bsky.social's 'Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed', published by @universitypress.cambridge.org.
Find out more and register to attend: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
The draft programme for the upcoming @britishacademy.bsky.social conference, 'Algeria: Historical Struggles and Imagined Utopias' (May 28-29), is now live!
View the draft programme: www.lse.ac.uk/asset-librar...
Register to attend the conference: www.lse.ac.uk/middleeastce...
NEW EVENT! 🚨
This event explores how gender, culture, literature, and practices of writing shape Kurdish lifeworlds. The speakers will spark conversation about culture, literature and writing in times of conflict.
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social @hsw.bsky.social
This fantastic panel is happening this Friday at @lsegender.bsky.social !
It's free but you'll need to register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anti-lgbti...
In an age of rising populism, what kinds of environments foster a global identity?
This paper presents findings from the first two years of a study tracking the development of cosmopolitan social attitudes at an elite university setting in the Middle East.
https://ow.ly/b5x350Yie9r
ROSEMARY HOLLIS MEMORIAL LECTURE: 24 Feb, 6pm, B103 @citystgeorges.bsky.social: celebrate Rosy's legacy & sharp understanding of #middleeast #conflict #foreignpolicy #diplomacy #peace #israel #palestine with Prof.W.Pullan lecture #cities in #state #conflicts
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Can skills training beat climate shocks? Iraqi women are leading the way.
New evidence from Iraq shows that targeted training programs significantly boost climate‑displaced women’s economic confidence, social integration and political engagement @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social
Read our PhD candidate Chloé Raïd's new research article, "Middle East Studies Beyond the Middle East Archive – Promises, Predicaments and Practices of MENA research in Western Governmental Archives" in MELA Notes.
🔗 escholarship.org/uc/item/8r42...
#AcademicSky #PoliSky
Can skills training beat climate shocks?
An evidence-based study from Iraq demonstrates that capacity-building programs for climate-displaced women significantly enhance their community integration and civic participation.
Read the blog: https://ow.ly/LJch50YhCuA
We’re back with a fourth season of Instant Coffee!
In collaboration with Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE), we've curated five exciting episodes with Atlantic Fellows from the Middle East around sustainable strategies for social change.
Listen here: https://ow.ly/c3qe50YhBYO
What does it take to effect meaningful change in our communities?
Through our collaboration with @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social's Instant Coffee podcast, five AFSEE Fellows co-curated episodes highlighting the people & ideas shaping movements & change in the Middle East.
ℹ️Learn more: buff.ly/75asaP5
