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Middle East CentreThe Axis of ResistanceA panel with Kamran Matin (University of Sussex), Yasmeen al-Eryani (Tampere Peace Research Institute) and Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford). Chaired by Raihan Ismail (University of Oxford).2025-02-1153 min
Counter/Argument: A Middle East PodcastThe Egyptian Revolution Is Not a Failed RevolutionAlmost as soon as there was an Arab Spring, there was talk of an Arab winter. In Egypt, mass demonstrations in January 2011 led to the end of Hosni Mobarak’s 30-year presidency. But only two years later, the military removed the elected president, Mohammad Morsi, and arrested him and other members of the Muslim Brotherhood. By 2014, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who had led the coup, was elected president and remains so until today. The revolution, by most accounts, had failed. In this episode of Counter/Argument, Youssef El Chazli argues otherwise. Join host Naghmeh Sohrabi as she and El Ch...2023-04-2735 min
POMEPS Middle East Political Science PodcastA Landscape of War & Burnings, Beatings, and Bombings (S. 12, Ep. 11)Munira Khayyat of The American University in Cairo joins Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss her new book, A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon. The book analyzes life along the southern border of Lebanon, where resistant ecologies thrive amid a terrain of perennial war. (Starts at 1:45). Neil Ketchley of the University of Oxford discusses his new article, Burnings, Beatings, and Bombings: Disaggregating Anti-Christian Violence in Egypt, 2013-2018 (co-authored with Christopher Barrie and Killian Clark). (Starts at 45:27).
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Democracy ParadoxMohammed Ali Kadivar on Paths to Durable Democracy and Thoughts on the Protests in IranIt's been exciting and it's been overwhelming. It's exciting to see people are rising, to see the amount of bravery on the streets, how these young women and men will stand up against the armored police with bare hands. It's been inspiring.Mohammad Ali KadivarBecome a Patron!Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.Mohammad Ali Kadivar is an assistant professor of sociology and international studies at Boston College. He is the author of the book Popular Politics and...2022-11-221h 00Middle East CentreAll Jihad Is Local: the Micro-Politics of Militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and BeyondDr Raphaël Lefèvre in conversation with Dr Neil Ketchley about his recent book, 'Jihad in the City: Militant Islamism and Contentious Politics in Tripoli' (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Militant Islamists are often assumed to be driven by global goals and transnational networks. But this narrative misses a crucial point: from Tawhid during the Lebanese civil war to Tahrir al-Sham in the current Syrian conflict, Islamist armed groups often seek to recruit and mobilize local communities not appealed by their religious ideology - certain tribes, social classes, and neighbourhoods. Why? How do they go about it? And to what extent, th...2022-03-161h 01Middle East CentreAll Jihad Is Local: the Micro-Politics of Militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and BeyondDr Raphaël Lefèvre in conversation with Dr Neil Ketchley about his recent book, 'Jihad in the City: Militant Islamism and Contentious Politics in Tripoli' (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Militant Islamists are often assumed to be driven by global goals and transnational networks. But this narrative misses a crucial point: from Tawhid during the Lebanese civil war to Tahrir al-Sham in the current Syrian conflict, Islamist armed groups often seek to recruit and mobilize local communities not appealed by their religious ideology - certain tribes, social classes, and neighbourhoods. Why? How do they go about it? And to what extent, th...2022-03-1658 min
The CosmopolitanThe Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution Podcast: Middle East Centre (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian RevolutionPub date: 2022-02-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDr Neil Ketchley in conversation with Professor Walter Armbrust about his current research. The post-WWII era saw coups and “revolutions from above” break out across the Middle East and North Africa. How did these events transform colonial-era state elites? We theorize that post-colonial regimes had to choose between purging perceived opponents and delivering key sta...2022-02-1556 minMiddle East CentreThe Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian RevolutionDr Neil Ketchley in conversation with Professor Walter Armbrust about his current research. The post-WWII era saw coups and “revolutions from above” break out across the Middle East and North Africa. How did these events transform colonial-era state elites? We theorize that post-colonial regimes had to choose between purging perceived opponents and delivering key state functions, leading to important variation in individual turnover and survival. To illustrate our argument, we trace the careers of 674 colonial-era ministers and civil servants in Egypt following the 1952 Revolution. Our analysis shows that individuals connected to Egypt's deposed monarch, very senior officials, and those with mili...2022-02-031h 00Middle East CentreThe Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian RevolutionDr Neil Ketchley in conversation with Professor Walter Armbrust about his current research. The post-WWII era saw coups and “revolutions from above” break out across the Middle East and North Africa. How did these events transform colonial-era state elites? We theorize that post-colonial regimes had to choose between purging perceived opponents and delivering key state functions, leading to important variation in individual turnover and survival. To illustrate our argument, we trace the careers of 674 colonial-era ministers and civil servants in Egypt following the 1952 Revolution. Our analysis shows that individuals connected to Egypt's deposed monarch, very senior officials, and those with mili...2022-02-0356 minOver The Wire PodcastThe Politics of Water Scarcity in the Case of Jordan Podcast: Middle East Centre (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The Politics of Water Scarcity in the Case of JordanPub date: 2021-11-11Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:This talk investigates the construction of the discourse of water scarcity in Jordan and the political economy of the water sector. The water insufficiency narrative is deployed to emphasise factors external to the responsibility of the Jordanian government as reasons for water scarcity, like nature, refugees, and neighbouring countries.Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization...2021-11-2646 minMiddle East CentreThe Politics of Water Scarcity in the Case of JordanDr Hussam Hussein investigates the construction of the discourse of water scarcity in Jordan, and the political economy of the water sector. This is a recording of a live webinar held on 22nd October 2021 for the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East. Dr Hussam Hussein (Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR, Oxford Martin School Fellow in Water Diplomacy, and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College) presents the politics of water scarcity in the case of Jordan.
Dr Neil Ketchley (St Antony’s College, Oxford) chairs this webinar and Dr...2021-11-1154 minMiddle East CentreThe Politics of Water Scarcity in the Case of JordanDr Hussam Hussein investigates the construction of the discourse of water scarcity in Jordan, and the political economy of the water sector. This is a recording of a live webinar held on 22nd October 2021 for the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East. Dr Hussam Hussein (Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR, Oxford Martin School Fellow in Water Diplomacy, and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College) presents the politics of water scarcity in the case of Jordan.
Dr Neil Ketchley (St Antony’s College, Oxford) chairs this webinar and Dr...2021-11-1146 min
POMEPS Middle East Political Science PodcastEgypt in a Time of Revolution: A Conversation with Neil Ketchley (S. 5, Ep. 39)Neil Ketchley speaks about his new book Egypt in a Time of Revolution: Contentious Politics and the Arab Spring. Ketchley is a Lecturer in Middle East Politics, King's College London.
"The book really tries to make a contribution by drawing on a range of new and unique data sources and methods— from analyzing video footage of crowd dynamics at Tahrir, police radio transcripts from the formative early days of the mobilization, to event data from Arabic-language newspapers. In terms of the kind of a conceptual contribution, the argument is really geared around an assumption and belief: that the dynamics of st...2017-07-0224 min