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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 15h

NEW✨ October is UK #BlackHistoryMonth @blackhistorymonth.org.uk

To celebrate, we’ve compiled a list of 19 exceptional books by Black authors and books about Black history, culture and experience, recommended by members of staff across LSE.

Read it below!

#BHM #BookRecommendations

Nineteen must-read books for Black History Month - LSE Review of Books

For UK Black History Month, we've compiled a list of 19 books by Black authors and books about Black history, culture and experience, recommended by LSE staff.

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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 15h

What happens to refugees when they can finally leave the camp? For PeaceRep–Iraq, @kamaranpalani.bsky.social examines the challenges residents of Syria's Al-Hol camp face attempting to integrate in Iraq blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/10/...

‘Life After Hope’: Integration Experiences of Families Returning from Al-Hol to Iraq - Middle East Centre

What happens to refugees when they can finally leave the camps? For PeaceRep–Iraq, Kamaran Palani examines the attempts to integrate in Iraq

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference!

The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field.

Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025.

www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to all speakers for their useful insights and students for joining our annual Student Careers Panel and Reception last week!

💌 Sign up to our mailing list for more events and MEC activities: t.co/bQXzfKrXhw @tizianaleone.bsky.social @lseid.bsky.social @cwoodcraft.bsky.social @jbs.cam.ac.uk

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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 1d

How did early modern and modern #Kurdish historians imagine the nation through their histories?

In a new blog, Marouf Cabi explores how their works in Persian and Sorani forged a Kurdish national narrative and challenged Eurocentric historiography.

Early Modern and Modern Kurdish National Historians - Middle East Centre

by Marouf Cabi Several key early modern and modern Kurdish historians, who wrote in Persian or Kurdish Sorani, are unrecognised in global and mainstream historiographical works. Historical works of th...

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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 2d

What are the financial and socioeconomic challenges faced by infertility patients in #Kuwait?

A new paper by Mariam Behbehani highlights these burdens and calls for the creation of an authority to support couples in their fertility care-seeking journey.

eprints.lse.ac.uk/128617/

LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 5d

Does Ahmed al-Sharaa’s rise mark a transition for #Syria, or the entrenchment of Islamist authoritarianism with global consequences?

In a new blog, Azad Deewanee explores this question and what it means for Syria's future and beyond.

Ahmed al-Sharaa at the UN: A Path from al-Qaeda to Head of Syria and Its Implications for Human Rights and International Security - Middle East Centre

by Azad Deewanee In December 2024, Syria witnessed a historic reversal. After more than a decade of war, Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship collapsed. But instead of opening a path to pluralism or democra...

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 5d

Upcoming event:

Professor John Chalcraft launches his new book 'From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization'.

The book presents a new theory which can link together diverse popular struggles amid the crises of the contemporary world.

This event launches Professor John Chalcraft's new book, From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization.

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · 6d

How can those who oppose neoliberal capitalism, colonialism, and neofascism overcome divisions to build for fundamental social transformation?

Join Professor John Chalcraft on 15 October for the launch of his new book, which aims to offer an answer to this vexing question.

This event launches Professor John Chalcraft's new book, From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization.

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · 8d

In this paper by @aycacu.bsky.social on moral judgment and genocide in Palestine, Arendt and Scott are brought into dialogue to confront the ethics of responsibility, complicity, and redress in our present.

Read the full article here ⬇️

A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice

Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 13d

Palestinians lack a coherent territory and a popular leadership.

Geography and politics stand in the way of an independent Palestinian state

Palestinians lack a coherent territory and a popular leadership.

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 20d

📣 #Public #event announcement!
💡 Thinking Popular Mobilization with Gramsci
📅 Wednesday 15 October, 5.30pm to 7pm, #LSE
📖 Book launch and discussion of Professor John Chalcraft's book
📧 Sign up required

👉🏽https://www.lse.ac.uk/government/events/2025/Thinking-Popular-Mobilization-with-Gramsci

This event launches Professor John Chalcraft's new book, From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization.

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 7d

📣 Join us TODAY for LSE's annual Black History Month event!

We explore the legal, political and community-based racial justice work that emerged 40 years ago from the Broadwater Farm riots, and the present-day methods of resistance it inspired.

There is still time to register 👇
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Racism and racial justice | Broadwater Farm uprising

6.30pm Weds 1 Oct | Sharon Grant, Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Roxana Willis | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 9d

@tizianaleone.bsky.social @lseid.bsky.social @cwoodcraft.bsky.social @jbs.cam.ac.uk

LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 9d

Only a few days left to register for our annual #student careers panel & reception!

This is an opportunity to hear insights from panellists covering diverse fields of academia & research, the charity sector, law & consultancy in/around the #MiddleEast.

www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 9d

Deadline in two weeks!

Applications are still open for the 2026 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellowship.

Deadline: October 13, 2025 (11:59 p.m. Doha time)

For more details and to apply, please visit our website: bit.ly/undergradfel...

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · Sep 2

Calling @nuqatar.bsky.social students to apply for the 2026 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellowship!

Deadline: October 13, 2025 (11:59 p.m. Doha time)

For more details and to apply, please visit our website: bit.ly/undergradfel...

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Mohamed Saleh @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social · 11d

My blog post at LSE Middle East Centre on elite conflict and democracy in MENA. Democracy struggled because of colonialism and domestic elites resolving conflict via disenfranchisement not powersharing

LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 12d

Why has democracy struggled in the #MiddleEast?

In a new blog, @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social argues it isn’t about cultural incompatibility – it’s about #colonialism disrupting homegrown democratic movements.

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Democracy’s Lost Century: What Egypt’s Historical Political Economy Reveals about Middle Eastern Authoritarian Resilience - Middle East Centre

by Mohamed Saleh Left: Page 1 of Egypt's national manifesto issued on 2 April 1879. Centre: Page 1 of signatories of the national manifesto. Right: Page 1 of final draft of Egypt's basic law (constitu...

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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 12d

Why has democracy struggled in the #MiddleEast?

In a new blog, @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social argues it isn’t about cultural incompatibility – it’s about #colonialism disrupting homegrown democratic movements.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/09/...

Democracy’s Lost Century: What Egypt’s Historical Political Economy Reveals about Middle Eastern Authoritarian Resilience - Middle East Centre

by Mohamed Saleh Left: Page 1 of Egypt's national manifesto issued on 2 April 1879. Centre: Page 1 of signatories of the national manifesto. Right: Page 1 of final draft of Egypt's basic law (constitu...

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 14d

🗞️ Dr Mai Taha's research traces the role of Palestinian women in sustaining the 1930's Arab Revolt. She argues that during wartime their homes were revolutionary spaces, but the domestic nature means it is overlooked by traditional accounts.

Read more in LSE Research for the World👇

How Palestinian women fought empire at home | LSE Research

Mai Taha explores unexpected and often unnoticed political resistance by focusing on the home, uncovering the vital roles played by women in conflict under the guise of simple domestic life.

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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 14d

Who will drive the journey to #KuwaitVision2035?

In a new blog, Dr Mohammed Alqattan argues that academia must co-pilot with government & industry – through BAZ, LSE partnerships & a research-driven agenda – to build a resilient, sustainable #Kuwait.

From Oil to Ocean: How Research-Led Innovation Can Drive Kuwait’s Vision 2035 - Middle East Centre

by Mohammad Al Qattan Kuwait Vision 2035: A Pathway Through Innovation Kuwait Vision 2035 outlines a bold national mission: to transition from an oil-dependent economy to a diversified, sustainable, a...

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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 15d

The #UK, together with Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Australia and Canada, has now officially recognised the state of #Palestine.

But this act in itself is not enough, writes @richardyoungs.bsky.social @carnegieendowment.org on @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

How to make recognition of Palestine count - British Politics and Policy at LSE

Keir Starmer followed through on his summer anouncement and the UK has now officially recognised the state of Palestine ahead of the UN General Assembly. Richard Youngs argues that while the…

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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 16d

Was #capitalism just a detour?

Join Professor Timothy Mitchell on 15 October at
@kingshistory.bsky.social as he presents a section from his forthcoming book 'The Alibi of Capital'.

Register to attend:

Was Capitalism Just a Detour? – A Talk by Professor Timothy Mitchell

Professor Timothy Mitchell will present and discuss a section from his forthcoming book, The Alibi of Capital.

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 16d

📣Upcoming event: Illiberalism, war, violence and authoritarianism: the current conjuncture

This talk will posit a history of liberalism's deep relationship to illiberalism, raising questions of the figure of the human and of life itself.

📅 Wed 22 Oct, 5pm
📍LSE

More info➡️

Illiberalism, war, violence and authoritarianism: the current conjuncture

Anthony Bogues at this free LSE even to discuss a history of liberalism and its deep relationship to illiberalism.

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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 16d

We're back at KFAS HQ for Day 2 of our policy research workshop on 'Climate Adaptation & Resilience'.

Greg Shapland led today’s session on policy writing – sharing general principles for effective writing and speaking in different contexts.

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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 17d

#China’s ties with Iraqi #Kurdistan are deliberately “decaf”: strong in trade, culture & education, but carefully avoiding politics, security or recognition.

Aziz Sardar explains why on the China Dialogues Blog @lseideas.bsky.social.

Read more 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/cff/2025/09/...

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