Spring 2009

London Middle East Institute
School of Oriental and African Studies
Tuesday Lecture Programme 2008/2009

THE Contemporary Middle East  

13 January
Kingdom on Alert: Saudi Arabia and the new Middle East cold war
Mai Yamani, Carnegie Institute and LMEI 
Chair: Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck
 
20 January
Secular Political Islam: the Turkish model versus Arab/Islamist models
Khaled Hroub, University of Cambridge
Chair: Ali Granmayeh, LMEI

27 January
Lecture Cancelled

3 February
Lecture Cancelled
 
10 February
Reading Week
 
17 February
Gaza and after
Ahmad Khalidi, St. Antony's College, Oxford University
Chair: Iain Scobbie, SOAS 
  
24 February                                                                         
Chances and Choices: Iran's first two years after the     Revolution                                                                                  Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State University
Chair: Heidi Walcher, SOAS
     
3 March
Democracy, Presidential Elections and Constitutional Reforms in the Arab World: Algeria and Tunisia in comparative perspective
Youcef Bouandel, Lincoln University
Chair: Tony Allan, King's College
 
10 March                                                                             What is Ottoman Cuisine and where is the Mediterranean?
Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck College & LMEI
Chair: Kathryn Spellman, LMEI & Aga Khan University (AKU-ISMC)