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This event was the launch of 'Making Sense of the Arab State' edited by Steven Heydemann & Marc Lynch, and published by University of Michigan Press. No region in the world has been more hostile to democracy, more dominated by military and security institutions, or weaker on economic development and inclusive governance than the Middle East. Why have Arab states been so oppressively strong in some areas but so devastatingly weak in others? How do those patterns affect politics, economics, and society across the region? The state stands at the centre of the analysis of politics in the Middle East, but has rarely been the primary focus of systematic theoretical analysis. 'Making Sense of the Arab State' brings together top scholars from diverse theoretical orientations to address some of the most critically important questions facing the region today. The authors grapple with enduring questions such as the uneven development of state capacity, the failures of developmentalism and governance, the centrality of regime security and survival concerns, the excesses of surveillance and control, and the increasing personalisation of power. Meet the speakers Lisa Anderson is Special Lecturer and James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations Emerita at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Anderson's scholarly research has included work on state formation in the Middle East and North Africa; on regime change and democratisation in developing countries; and on social science, academic research and public policy both in the United States and around the world. Steven Heydemann is Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Professor of Government, and Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Smith College. Heydemann is a political scientist who specializes in the comparative politics and the political economy of the Middle East. His interests include authoritarian governance, economic development, social policy, political and economic reform, and civil society. Salwa Ismail is a Professor of Politics, with a focus on the Middle East, at SOAS University of London. She is a member of the London Middle East Institute and the Center for Palestine Studies. She has authored multiple books, including 'The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria' (2018); 'Political Life in Cairo's New Quarters: Encountering the Everyday State' (2006) and 'Rethinking Islamist Politics: Culture, the State and Islamism' (2003). Marc Lynch is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs; Director of the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS); and Director of M.A. Middle East Studies. His recent books include 'The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research After the Arab Uprisings' (edited with Sean Yom and Jillian Schwedler) and 'The New Arab Wars: Anarchy and Uprising in the Middle East'. This event will be chaired by Toby Dodge. Toby Dodge is a Professor in the Department of International Relations, LSE. He is also Kuwait Professor and Director of the Kuwait Programme, Middle East Centre. Toby's research concentrates on the evolution of the post-colonial state in the international system. The main focus of this work on the developing world is the state in the Middle East, specifically Iraq.

On The Outside is taking a rest, but we're excited to share an episode from another podcast that we think you'll like!THIIIRD Waves is one of the outputs of THIIIRD magazine, a platform that amplifies marginalised voices through print, events, and on the airwaves with their podcast. The show explores the intersections of culture and activism, and brings their listeners interviews and discussions with guests who have knowledge and lived experiences on the topic they talk about.This episode was first released in July 2020, and Hosts Daniela, Rhona and Tryb explore things like how communities are affected by tourism and what a more conscious approach to travelling might look like, with stops at Mount Everest, Venice Island and more. Then Daniella speaks to Tom Selwyn who is professorial research associate at the department of anthropology and sociology at the London Middle East Institute. He is widely published in the field of anthropology of tourism and pilgrimage. He also founded the MA in The Anthropolgy of Tourism, Travel and Pilgrimage at SOAS in 2010.THE THIIRD TEAM:Rhona Ezuma, Editor in Chief - @roena Daniela Hornzkov Sun, Producer - @dhsun Trybe, Music Editor - @trybe_official CALL TO ACTION:Follow THIIRD on Instagram @THIIIRDMagazine and listen to the THIIRD Waves podcast Sign up to the On The Outside newsletter to keep up to date between episodesYou can become a cheerleader of On The Outside on Patreon.RESOURCES MENTIONED: Sign up to the newsletter to find links to all the stories mentioned, extra resources, information about future episodes and more! ontheoutsidepodcast.co.uk/newsletter Share you opinions with us by emailing ontheoutsidepod@gmail.com you can send a DM on Instagram @OnTheOutsidePod, and you can send a voicenote or message via Whatsapp to 07883905336.In an aim to be accessible, we have transcripts for episodes on our website. ontheoutsidepodcast.co.uk/transcriptsYou can support the show on Patreon! All our Patreon money is offered to panellists for their time and expertise. Visit patreon.com/ontheoutsidepodcastCREDITS: Produced by Francesca TurauskisPodcast Art by Sophie NolanSocial Media Assistant is Anesu Matanda-MambingoMusic is Bassbeat by Alex NortonOn The Outside is part of the Tremula Network.

Hosts Daniela, Rhona and Tryb invite professor Tom Selwyn to discuss issues surrounding tourism, with stops at Mount Everest, Venice Island and more. Tom Selwyn is a Professorial Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and the London Middle East Institute. He is widely published in the field of the anthropology of tourism/pilgrimage with regional interests in Palestine/Israel and Bosnia-Herzegovina. He founded the MA in the Anthropology of Travel, Tourism, and Pilgrimage at SOAS in 2010. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Salwa Ismail talks about her latest book, The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria, with Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast. The book demonstrates how the political prison and the massacre, in particular, developed as apparatuses of government, shaping Syrians' political subjectivities and structuring their interactions with the regime and with one another. “The main question [of the book] was really to understand the centrality of violence to the Assad regime and it was also to kind of expand our perspective on violence beyond seeing violence as purely repressive and thinking that it must be functioning; it must do something. I wanted to understand what it did to Syrian society and Syrians as political subject citizens and their understanding of themselves, each other, and the relation to the regime,” said Ismail. When describing the political prison apparatus, she explains, “It was very common to make prisoners eat soiled food too. It was soiled with either urine or vermin or sewage water or even sometimes forcing them to drink soiled water and so on…So you think that this is cruel and irrational but you have to look at what it does to the political prisoner in terms of their own sense of self and their ability to kind of maintain a sense of their humanity and self-respect…The experiences and the feeling of not being able to stand up for yourself or for fellow political prisoners…that kind of gives us a sense that there is a political objective to this which is to undo the political subjectivity of these prisoners so they cannot really dissent.” She goes on to say, “There was a kind of recurrence of these campaigns to make the political prisoners not only renounce their political commitments and allegiance to particular political parties but also to actually completely reverse themselves and pronounce their allegiance, for example, now to Bashar al-Assad; so it was a complete overturning of the subject.” Salwa Ismail is a Professor of Politics, with a focus on the Middle East, at SOAS University of London. She is a member of the London Middle East Institute and the Center for Palestine Studies. She has authored multiple books, including Political Life in Cairo's New Quarters: Encountering the Everyday State (2006) and Rethinking Islamist Politics: Culture, the State and Islamism (2003).

Helen Lackner has worked as a consultant in social aspects of rural development in over thirty countries in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. She has spent the past four decades researching Yemen, working in the country for fifteen years. Lackner is currently Associate Researcher at the London Middle East Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and was the 2016 Sir William Luce Fellow at Durham University. The editor of Journal of the British-Yemeni Society, she is also a regular contributor to Oxford Analytica’s briefs and openDemocracy. Her publications include Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State and Why Yemen Matters: A Society in Transition (editor). The podcasts outline the transformations in relations between the Sultanate of Oman and the different Yemeni states from 1960, focusing on the internal and international reasons for the changes on both sides. _________Anglo Omani Society accounts:Instagram: angloomanisociety Linkedin: The Anglo-Omani SocietyTwitter: @AngloOmaniSOCFacebook: The Anglo-Omani Society

1919 was the year in which Woodrow Wilson commissioned an Inter-Allied investigation from the Paris Peace Conference into the desires of the populations in the former Ottoman Empire. Great Britain and France pulled out of that commission leaving two Americans, Henry King and Charles Crane to lead a quixotic mission to get the borders of Greater Syria right. Their investigation into the desires of the populations in the former Ottoman Empire and the response to that report by the 1st Pan-Syrian Congress in Damascus is the focus of this workshop. The report and its recommendations were embargoed until the 1930s. Held in collaboration with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS, University of London the workshop was chaired by Prof. Dawn Chatty (Oxford University). Dr Lori Allen (SOAS, University of London) Starts at 12 mins: Investigating Liberals: The King-Crane Commission as a first among many Dr Lauren Banko (Yale University) Starts at 36 mins: The 1919 King Crane Commission in transnational context: between mission civilisatrice and revolution Mr James Barr (historian and author) Starts at 1 hr 7 mins: Anglo-French rivalry over Greater Syria 1914-1919 Dr Andrew Patrick (Tennessee State University) Starts at 1 hr 38 mins: The Afterlife of the King-Crane Commission Report

Hon utmanade sitt lands normer och konventioner i ord och handling, en kärlekens och frihetens poet, men fick betala ett högt pris innan sin allt för tidiga död. Litteraturväven berättar historien om Farough Farrokhzad: minns vingarnas flykt. Litteraturväven är ett program av och med Jonas Stål, med inläsningar av Beatrice Berg och Dick Lundberg. Forough Farrokhzads porträtt är ritat av Irem Babovic. KÄLLOR: [Litteratur] Bibeln (Psaltaren 55:7-9), Verbum (1999) Dabashi, Hamid – Masters and masterpieces of Iranian cinema, Mage Publishers (2007) Farrokzhad, Forough – Mitt hjärta sörjer gården, Lindelöws (2011) Farrokzhad, Forough – Another birth and other poems, Mage Publishers (2010) Farrokzhad, Forough – Sin, The University of Arkansas Press (2007) Farrokhzad, Forough – Asir/Captive, Rhombus Press (2018) Hillmann, Michael – A lonely woman: Forugh Farrokhzhad an her poetry, Three Continents Press (1987) Naficy, Hamdid – A social history of Iranian cinema, volume 2, Duke University Press (2011) Rahimieh, Nasrin (ed.) – Forugh Farrokhzad: Poet of modern Iran – Iconic woman and feminine pioneer of new Persian poetry, I.B. Tauris (2010) Roostaee, Amir Hossein – Different worlds: A comparison of love poems by Dorothy Livesay and by Forugh Farrokhzad, Université de Sherbrooke (2010) Vatanka, Alex – Iran and Pakistan: security, diplomacy and american influence, I.B. Tauris (2015) [Film] Farrokhzad, Forough - خانه سیاه است (The House is Black), Golestan Film (1963) Strigel, Claus – Mond Sonne Blume Spiel, Denkmal Film (2008) [Nätet] Darznik, Jasmin – The poetry, life and legacy of Forugh Farrokhzad, Women’s Review of Books Emami, Karim – Recollections and afterthoughts, www.forughfarrokhzad.org Folkhälsomyndigheten: Lepra Lepramissionen: Sjukdomen Milani, Farzaneh – I cannot lie”: The literary biography and unpublished letters of Forugh Farrokhzad, Föreläsning vid London Middle East Institute, University of London (20 oktober 2016) Milani, Farzaneh – Remember Flight: Forugh Farrokhzad, the Iranian Icarus, Föreläsning vid London Middle East Institute, University of London (21 oktober 2016) Milani, Farzaneh – The House Is Black: A Model Life Narrative by Forugh Farrokhzad, Föreläsning vid London Middle East Institute, University of London (24 oktober 2016) Milani, Farzaneh – I Feel Sorry for the Garden: Democratizing the Family, Föreläsning vid London Middle East Institute, University of London (25 oktober 2016) Varzi, Roxanne – Pictura poesis: The interplay of poetry, image and etnography in Forough Farrokhzad’s The House is Black, Offscreen (2014) Withheld, Names – Life under the shah, The Harvard Crimson (1979)

Which country has suffered the worst ever outbreak of cholera, with more than a million cases and over 2000 deaths recorded in the past year? You’d be forgiven for not knowing the answer is Yemen. Described by Amnesty International as the “forgotten war”, Yemen is in the fourth year of a conflict which has left over 10 000 people dead, and more than 8 million at risk of starvation. The war has entered a vicious new phase, with Saudi-led coalition forces launching an assault on the port city of Hodeida. Alex Whisson had the opportunity to speak to Helen Lackner, a research associate at the London Middle East Institute in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and author of the recently published, Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State. Lackner began by outlining the 2011 protests in Yemen, which brought down the long term ruler of the country, Ali Abdullah Saleh.

What are the consequences of the US withdrawl from the Iran Nuclear Deal. I talk to Hassan Haskimian, a Director of the London Middle East Institute and economist at the University of London

Hannah Bargawi (SOAS), Hassan Hakimian (SOAS), Susan Joekes (Independent Researcher) and Massoud Karshenas (SOAS) Researchers at SOAS are leading a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) that is intended on identifying innovative disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research agendas on female labour and dynamics of inequality in developing countries. This seminar is an opportunity to find out more about the network, its activities and avenues for future research. This network is concerned with gender and dynamics of inequality in three world regions, with specific focus on (a) the interplay of economic structures, policies and institutions as the determinants of women’s access to employment and (b) the patterns of women’s economic participation as key drivers of inequality. Speaker biographies: Dr. Hannah Bargawi is co-Investigator of the Dynamics of Gender Inequality in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia network. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at SOAS, University of London. Her recent research focuses on issues of gender and work in the Middle East and in Europe and she recently co-edited a volume entitled Economics and Austerity in Europe: Gendered Impacts and Sustainable Alternatives, published by Routledge. Dr. Hassan Hakimian is co-Investigator of the Dynamics of Gender Inequality in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia network and is the director of the London Middle East Institute and Reader in the Economics Department at SOAS University of London. He was previously an Associate Dean at Cass Business School, London. His research focuses on MENA economies, specifically human resources and demographic change, labour markets, inclusive growth and the economics of Arab uprisings. Susan Joekes is an independent researcher with special interest in trade, industrial organization and the economics of gender relations in the Middle East and North Africa. She has degrees in Persian with Arabic from Edinburgh University and in development economics from Oxford University, UK. Before becoming affiliated with SOAS, as a member of ESRC GRCF research network, she was a Senior Visiting Fellow of the LSE Gender Institute, 2016-2017. She was for many years a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK and also staff economist at the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW), in Washington DC. Prof. Massoud Karshenas is the principal investigator of the Dynamics of Gender Inequality in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia network and is Professor of Economics at SOAS, University of London. Event Date: 31 January 2018 Released by: SOAS Economics Podcast

Devastated Lands: Lebanon at the End of the Great War, 1918 The First World War had brought an unprecedented degree of loss and suffering to the people of Lebanon. This lecture examines through works of literature and eyewitness accounts how the people of Lebanon looked back on the Ottoman experience and their different expectations of the post-Ottoman world. Professor Eugene Rogan is Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He took his B.A. in economics from Columbia, and his M.A. and PhD in Middle Eastern history from Harvard. He taught at Boston College and Sarah Lawrence College before taking up his post in Oxford in 1991, where he teaches the modern history of the Middle East. He is author of The Arabs: A History (Penguin, 2009), which has been translated in ten languages and was named one of the best books of 2009 by The Economist, The Financial Times, and The Atlantic Monthly. His earlier works include Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 1999), for which he received the Albert Hourani Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association of North America and the Fuad Köprülü Prize of the Turkish Studies Association; The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge University Press, 2001, second edition 2007, with Avi Shlaim), which has been published in Arabic, French, Turkish and Italian editions; and Outside In: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East (I.B. Tauris, 2002). His latest book, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914 - 1920, was published in February 2015. CBRL hosted this lecture in partnership with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS and the British Lebanese Association as their Sir David Robert’s memorial Lecture.

Professor Robert Springborg (Italian Institute of International Affairs, Rome), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series. Robert Springborg is a non-resident Research Fellow of the Italian Institute of International Affairs, Rome. Until October 2013, he was Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, and Program Manager for the Middle East for the Center for Civil-Military Relations. From 2002 until 2008, he held the MBI Al Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he also served as Director of the London Middle East Institute. Before taking up that Chair, he was Director of the American Research Center in Egypt, University Professor of Middle East Politics at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia; and assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also taught at King’s College, London; University of California, Berkeley; the College of Europe; the Paris School of International Affairs of Sciences Po; and the University of Sydney. In 2016, he was Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative, Kennedy School, and Harvard University. His publications include Mubarak’s Egypt: Fragmentation of the Political Order; Family Power and Politics in Egypt; Legislative Politics in the Arab World (co-authored with Abdo Baaklini and Guilain Denoeux); Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East first and second editions, (co-authored with Clement M. Henry); Oil and Democracy in Iraq; Development Models in Muslim Contexts: Chinese, ‘Islamic’ and Neo-Liberal Alternatives and several editions of Politics in the Middle East (co-authored with James A. Bill). He co-edited a volume on popular culture and political identity in the Gulf that appeared in 2008. He has published in the leading Middle East journals and was the founder and regular editorialist for The Middle East in London, a monthly journal that commenced publication in 2003. His new book -‘Egypt’ has just been published in October 2017 by Polity Press.

On September 26th 2014 SOAS Students’ Union hosted its first public lecture of the year in collaboration with the London Middle East Institute and the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS. The event featured 3 speakers who all specialise in the Middle East, and addressed the topics of ISIS, and the recent crisis in the Middle East. CHAIR: Dr Hassan Hakimian, London Middle East Institute, SOAS SPEAKERS (In order of appearance): - Ghias Aljundi : ‘ISIS and the Syrian cause’ - Charles Tripp: 'Iraq: the rentier caliphate' - Nadje Al-Ali: 'Gender, Violence and Minorities' Recorded and edited by Daniel Avis for SOAS Radio