UI researcher Lucia Ardovini speaks with Dr Simon Mabon, Lancaster University, on his forthcoming book Houses built on Sand which explores the fragmentation of state-society relations in the post Arab Uprisings Middle East using the ideas of Giorgio Agamben and Hannah Arendt.
Dr Mabon visited the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) on the 16th of March 2018 to present at a seminar on the implications of the rivalry between two regional powers in the Middle East, namely Saudi Arabia and Iran.
