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London Middle East Institute at SOAS Annual Report 2017/2018 and Financial Report 2016/2017 LMEI ORGANISATION and MEMBERSHIP London Middle East Institute at SOAS Annual Report 2017/2018 and Financial Report 2016/2017 LMEI ORGANISATION AND MEMBERSHIP Staff of the London Middle East Donations, Sponsorship and Affiliations Institute Founding Patron and Donor of the LMEI Director & CEO: Dr Hassan Hakimian Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber, Executive Officer and Company Secretary: MBI Al Jaber Foundation Ms Louise Hosking Events and Magazine Coordinator: Institutional Affiliates Mr Vincenzo Paci BICDO (British Iranian Community Administrative Assistant: Mr Aki Elborzi Development Association) Editor (Middle East in London Magazine): Bonyad Jaleh Esfahani Ms Megan Wang British Association for Turkish Studies (BATAS) Designer (Middle East in London Magazine): The British-Yemeni Society Ms Shahla Geramipour Forum Iran Gingko LSE Middle East Centre Naghmeh Ensemble LMEI Board of Trustees The Petroleum Institute Baroness Valerie Amos (Chair), Director, SOAS Dr Orkideh Behrouzan, SOAS Professor Stephen Hopgood, SOAS Institutional Affiliation is £250 per year. Dr Lina Khatib, The Royal Institute of Institutional Affiliates are entitled to the same International Affairs benefits as Individual Affiliates, please see below, Dr Dina Matar, SOAS along with the free use of a room at SOAS for an Dr Hanan Morsy, African Development Bank event lasting up to two hours, and up to four copies Professor Scott Redford, SOAS of each edition of the magazine. They will also be Mr James Watt acknowledged in LMEI publicity material, including the website: www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/. Individual Affiliates pay £30 per year, £20 LMEI Advisory Council concessions and £10 for students, for which they receive an annual subscription to ‘The Middle Lady Barbara Judge (Chair) East in London’ magazine, inclusion on e-mail and HE Mr Khaled al-Duwaisan, Ambassador, mailing lists for notification of upcoming events, Embassy of the State of Kuwait and special rates for LMEI conferences and Mrs Haifa Al Kaylani, Arab International publications. Women’s Forum Dr Khalid Bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, President, University College of Bahrain Dr Alanoud Alsharekh, Senior Fellow for Regional Politics, IISS Mr Farad Azima, NetScientific Plc Dr Noel Brehony, MENAS Associates Ltd. Professor Magdy Ishak Hanna, British Egyptian Society HE Mr Rami Mortada, Ambassador, Embassy of Lebanon LMEI Research Associates Dr Alanoud Al-Sharekh Dr Hamid Keshmirshekan Dr George Joffé Ms Helen Lackner Dr Corinna Mullin Dr Sharri Plonski Dr Hamid Pouran Professor Tom Selwyn Professor John Waterbury Professor Sami Zubaida The aim of the LMEI, through education and research, is to promote knowledge of all aspects of the Middle East including its complexities, problems, achievements and assets, both among the general public and with those who have special interest in the region. In this task it will build on two essential assets. First, it is based in London, a city which has unrivalled contemporary and historical connections and communications with the Middle East: political, social, cultural, commercial, scientific and educational. Secondly, the LMEI is at SOAS, the only tertiary educational institution in the world whose explicit purpose is to provide training and scholarship on the whole Middle East from prehistory until today. Contents Director’s Letter 4 ------------------------------------------------------ Event Highlights 6 ------------------------------------------------------ Calendar of Events 8 ------------------------------------------------------ Centre for Iranian Studies 14 ------------------------------------------------------ Centre for Palestine Studies 18 ------------------------------------------------------ Publications 22 ------------------------------------------------------ Research Associates 26 ------------------------------------------------------ Summer School 30 ------------------------------------------------------ PhD Theses on the Middle East 32 ------------------------------------------------------ Acknowledgements 36 ------------------------------------------------------ Financial Statement 38 ------------------------------------------------------ Directory of Academic Members 40 ------------------------------------------------------ 4 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2017-2018 Director’s Letter LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2017-2018 5 LMEI is particularly proud of its interdisciplinary sub- centres: the Centre for Iranian Studies (CIS) and the Centre for Palestine Studies (CPS). Since their inception (CIS was established in 2010 and CPS in 2012), they have both played a key role in inspiring and innovating teaching and academic interchange at SOAS. For example, CIS has provided a nucleus for the prestigious Kamran Djam and Ehsan Yarshater annual lectures which attract academic expertise from around the world, enhancing the student experience at SOAS and benefiting the large number of members of the public who have a profound interest in Persianate culture and society. Another indicator of such interest has been the keen response to the Persian calligraphy classes – taught by Keramat Fathinia – that have continued to attract enthusiastic practitioners throughout 2017/18. CPS has also been able to attract senior statesmen and women and scholars of Palestinian affairs to the School to deliver Annual Lectures: in the spring of 2018 our guest was Elias Khoury, the Lebanese writer and intellectual. After a busy year in 2016/17 when much of the Institute’s The Centre’s peer-reviewed publication series with I.B. endeavours focused on the SOAS Centenary year, by Tauris continues to thrive with a fourth volume published 2017/18 we were back to normal business, working to in 2018. Having served the maximum of two three-year enhance and promote Middle East studies at SOAS in terms Professors Arshin Adib-Moghaddam (CIS) and many ways and forms. Gilbert Achcar (CPS) have now stepped down as Centre Chairs and Ms Narguess Farzad and Dr Dina Matar have This was a particularly busy year for conferences at taken over new Chairs of CIS and CPS respectively. We SOAS: the thirteenth symposium in the Idea of Iran wish them every success in their new responsibilities. series, ‘The Turko-Timurid Intermezzo’ co-convened by Dr Sarah Stewart (SOAS) and Professor Charles Melville As a glance at the Events section of this report will show, (Cambridge University) and the ‘Faces of the Infinite: the Institute continues to provide a wide range of events Neoplatonism and Poetics at the Confluence of Africa, and activities, from its Tuesday Evening Lectures which Asia and Europe’ conference, convened by Professor concentrate largely on current political and economic Stefan Sperl (SOAS). affairs to the many cultural events that enable students to engage with the cultural background of the societies LMEI also facilitated research networks, administering that they study. The Middle East in London magazine a GCRF project on ‘Female Employment and Dynamics encapsulates our outreach efforts, drawing on the of Inequality in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia expertise of its editorial board and SOAS academics and Southern Europe’ – whose Principal Investigator and involving an extensive web of outside academics, was Professor Massoud Karshenas of the Economics journalists and cultural practitioners. Each of its five issues Department while I was a Co-Investigator. We also hosted across the year gives an indepth insight into individual LMEI’s Centre of Palestine Studies’ annual research Middle Eastern countries and themes. seminar for postgraduate students working on Palestine, organised as before by Dr Dina Matar. Such events are I hope you will acquire a deeper sense of our work as you crucial for SOAS academics, building networks between read this Report. My team and I are very grateful to our scholars inside and beyond the School, stimulating wide network of SOAS academic colleagues and external research ideas and providing forums to discuss current partners without whose support the LMEI would not be research and develop future research. able to achieve its aims. 6 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2017-2018 Event Highlights LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2017-2018 7 In 2017/18 LMEI again provided a wide range of events to students from Europe, the US and the Far East and from reach out to large numbers of the public who are interested mature students to undergraduates, some of whom were in the Middle East while simultaneously enhancing the already at SOAS studying other subjects. In addition to student experience at SOAS. The flagship Tuesday these academic courses LMEI continued to host practical Evening Lectures programme was supplemented with a evening classes in Persian calligraphy taught by Keramat wide variety of occasional lectures and book launches Fathinia, classes which attracted a loyal following in all and a series of seminars on Turkey. Outreach also took three terms. the form of bespoke briefing programmes, our Middle East Summer School in June/July and two new initiatives: support for SOAS’s Economics Department’s Global Challenges Research Fund project on ‘The Dynamics of Gender Inequality in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia’ and the Changing Lives programme in Amman, Jordan. Throughout the year speakers in the Tuesday Evening Lecture series addressed a number of contemporary issues whether in individual countries or across the MENA region, drawing on current academic and journalistic expertise to address matters of political turmoil, economic development and cultural identity. The series of occasional lectures has a wider historical remit. These
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