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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Erwin van Veen, senior research fellow at Clingendael’s Conflict Research Unit (CRU). He is an experienced professional who delivers high quality and insightful strategic advice that helps mitigate violent conflict. His direct area of expertise are the relationships between political order, protest and violence in countries like Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Syria and Turkey. On this episode, Simon and Erwin talk about travelling in the region, balancing policy and academic interests, the interplay of ideational and material factors, violence, Erwin's new book and much more.
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Professor Christopher Phillips of Queen Mary University about his fantastic new book Battleground: Ten Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East. The book, out on 27th February 2024 with Yale University Press, builds on Chris' earlier work and applies it to 10 'battlegrounds' across the Middle East and its neighbours in a provocative and timely analysis of conflict in the region. On this episode Simon and Chris speak about the book, its themes, the changing nature of the region and much more.
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Shabnam Holliday, Associate Lecturer at the University of Plymouth. Shabnam is the author of a number of books and articles on Iran, global IR and the wider Middle East. On this episode Simon and Shabnam talk about living across the region, working in Gaza, the Islamic Republic, the current situation and much, much more.
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Satgin Hamrah, PhD Candidate in History at Tufts University and editor of Contextualizing Sectarianism in the Middle East and South Asia: Identity, Competition and Conflict. On this episode, Simon and Satgin talk about rejecting the lived experiences of the 'ancient hatreds' narrative and the lessons taken from non-MENA cases
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Edward Wastnidge, Deputy Director of SEPAD about 2023 and the various activities, publications, workshops, and more. It's a deep dive into the many things that SEPAD and the wonderful people that are involved in our project have been up to. We're very lucky to have such a great group of people involved with us. Here's an overview of what we've been up to.
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Gerasimos Tsourapas, Gerasimos Tsourapas is Professor of International Relations at the University of Glasgow. He is also the Chair of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, & Migration Studies (ENMISA) Section of the International Studies Association. He works on the international relations of the Middle East and the broader Global South, with a particular focus on the politics of migrants, refugees, and diasporas.
On this episode, Simon and Gerasimos talk about a movement, scholarship in the US and the UK, Fred Halliday, migration, Egypt, the state and so much more. -
On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Raihan Ismail, His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University. Raihan is the author of two fabulous books published by OUP: 2021's Rethinking Salafism: The Transnational Networks of Salafi ‘Ulama in Egypt, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, and 2016's Saudi Clerics and Shi‘a Islam.
On this episode, Simon and Raihan talk about a personal journey from Malaysia to Oxford, the influence of her father, Salafism, Saudi Arabia, ulema, the interplay of intimately tiny and hegemonic dynamics, and much more. -
On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Professor Andrea Teti. Andrea looks at connections between the production of knowledge and relations of power, and second, the use of discourse analysis to examine how political actors conceive of and act in pursuit of key goals such as democracy. He is on twitter (X) at a_teti.
On this episode Simon and Andrea speak about his journey into scholarship, studying at St Andrews', Die Hard (you'll have to listen!), discovering continental philosophy, IR-Area studies, and critical scholarship on the Middle East. -
On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Eyad Al Refai, Aziz Alghashian, Guy Burton and Francesco Belcastro about Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom’s growing influence in global football. Eyad, Aziz, Guy and Francesco all work at the interplay of football and politics in the Middle East, while Aziz and Eyad have experience of attending games in Saudi Arabia.
On this episode, Simon and the group discuss the rising prominence of football in Saudi Arabia, reflecting on why the Kingdom has become involved in football, how it is funded, the global economy of football, its role in Vision 2030, the interplay of football and politics, the Kingdom’s oldest football team, sports washing, sectarianism and nationalism.
There’s a lot of coverage of football in the Kingdom, a great deal of which is beset by orientalist, xenophobic and Islamophobic assumptions. This podcast seeks to challenge this, offering a considered discussion of Saudi Arabia’s role in the beautiful game. -
On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Javier Bordon Osorio about his recent report 'Spatialising Securitisation'. Javier is a PhD student at Lancaster University and a PhD Fellow with SEPAD. He is on twitter at @JavierBordonOs.
The report reflects on the following questions: How do processes and dynamics of spatialisation inform security conceptions? Who securitises, and why? What relational and behavioural patterns emerge from security articulations? How do threats develop, travel and crystallise across time and space? Who is included and who is excluded? How is (in-)security experienced and lived in and through space?
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Jamie Allinson, Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Jamie is a scholar of politics and international relations with a particular interest in the contemporary Middle East. I am especially interested in how forms of political power - within, across and beyond borders - interact with people and movements originating in the realms more commonly thought of as 'society' and 'the economy.' He is the author of The Age of Counter-revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East and The Struggle for the State in Jordan: The Social Origins of Alliances in the Middle East.
On this episode, Simon and Jamie talk about politics, Thatcher, the Beano and the Dandy, Palestine, the transformation of Ramallah, Game Theory and Japan, Jordan, counter-revolutions and the Arab Uprisings, sovereignty and much more. -
On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Abdolrasool Farzam Divsallar and Eyad Al Refai about the Saudi-Iran deal.
Eyad is a Fellow with SEPAD and a PhD Student at Lancaster University. He is the author of a number of articles and opinion pieces on regional security in the Middle East including on transforming the Saudi-Iranian rivalry (with Samira Nasirzadeh). He is on twitter at @eyadalrefaei.
Abdolrasool Divsallar is a visiting professor at the Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, focusing on Iran’s military affairs, Russia-Iran relations, and Persian Gulf security architecture. He is also a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington. Dr. Divsallar co-founded and led the Regional Security Initiative at the European University Institute (EUI) from 2020-22. He is on twitter at @divsallar.
On this episode Simon, Farzam and Eyad talk about the deal and its impact on security and defence policies, how to transform relations, the nuclear question, the role of the US and China, Yemen, Syria and much more. -
On this episode of SEPADPod - the first (that we are aware of) to bring Saudi and Iranian scholars together - Simon speaks with Banafsheh Keynoush and Aziz Alghashian about recent diplomatic developments between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Banafsheh is a scholar of international affairs who has conducted fieldwork in the Middle East for two decades, including in Saudi Arabia and Iran. She is the author of Saudi Arabia and Iran: Friends or Foes? (Palgrave, 2016) and The World Powers and Iran: Before, During and After the Nuclear Deal (Palgrave, 2022). She is on twitter @banafshehkeynoush.
Aziz is a Saudi researcher who is fascinated with the elusively of Saudi foreign policy. He obtained a PhD from the University of Essex in 2019 where he taught International Relations, and Politics and Middle Eastern Studies for several years. He is on twitter @azizalghashian.
On this episode, Simon, Banafsheh and Aziz talk offer a critical reflection on the normalisation agreement, the drivers of the agreement, how it was received in both countries, the US role, and the importance of scholars and civil society actors in helping transform perceptions of the other. Truly not to be missed. -
On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Youssef Cherif, Director of CGC Tunis and a political analyst who specializes in Maghreb affairs. A member of Carnegie's Civic Research Network, Youssef contributes to a number of think-tanks on Maghreb affairs. Youssef is a Researcher at Leiden University - Institute of Area Studies. He is on twitter at @Faiyla.
On this episode Simon and Youssef talk about Indiana Jones, classics, IR, studying the Maghreb/North Africa and why people don't, the MENA/SWANA/WA debate, recent developments across the Maghreb and much more. -
On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Youssef Cherif, Director of CGC Tunis and a political analyst who specializes in Maghreb affairs. A member of Carnegie's Civic Research Network, Youssef contributes to a number of think-tanks on Maghreb affairs. Youssef is a Researcher at Leiden University - Institute of Area Studies. He is on twitter at @Faiyla.
On this episode Simon and Youssef talk about Indiana Jones, classics, IR, studying the Maghreb/North Africa and why people don't, the MENA/SWANA/WA debate, recent developments across the Maghreb and much more. -
On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Maya Mikdashi, an interdisciplinary scholar of the state at Rutgers University. Maya is the author of the wonderful Sectarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon, published by Stanford University Press. She is the co-founder of Jadaliyya and the director of About Baghdad (2004) and Notes on the War (2006) , a feature length documentary film on the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War, and others. You can find her on twitter @mayamikdashi.
On this episode, Simon and Maya talk about becoming interested in the state and the politics of difference, travelling to Baghdad, filming documentaries, the importance of human experience, anthropology and political science, sectarianism and sex, sectarianism and the state, the process of ‘un-seeing’, Jadaliyya, trust, and much more! -
On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Ibrahim Halawi and Ruba Ali Al-Hassani about their recent report Desectarianization and the End of Sectarianism? Funded by The Henry Luce Foundation the report looks at desectarianization in Iraq, Lebanon and Bahrain.
In the discussion, Simon, Ibrahim and Ruba reflect on desectarianization as 're-imagining', sectarianism and episteme, bottom up and top down processes, and the role of violence.
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Edward Wastnidge, Deputy Director of SEPAD and Senior Lecturer at the Open University about SEPAD's activities across 2022 and into 2023. Picking out some of their memorable moments from the year, Simon and Eddie reflect on the conference, various reports, the successes of our Fellows and some things to look out for in 2023.
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n this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Gabriel Garroum, Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Researcher at abriel is an interdisciplinary researcher specialized in International Relations and Middle East Politics. Born into a Syrian-Catalan family, his main research areas include political violence, critical IR theory, contemporary security issues, and critical geopolitics. He is also a member of the Research Centre in International Relations (King's College London) and co-director of "Això era casa meva/This Was My Home "(2019), a documentary on the Syrian civil war premiered at the British Film Institute. You can find him on twitter @gabrielgarroum
On this episode Simon and Gabriel talk about political identities, double minorities, political subjectivities, affect, sovereign power, Aleppo, urban politics, modernity and much, much more. -
On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Maria Kastrinou, Lecturer in (Social) Anthropology at Brunel University. Maria's research focuses on sectarian politics and national belonging, religion, state, conflict and energy in the Middle East and South-Eastern Mediterranean. She is the author of Power, sect and state in Syria: The politics of marriage and identity amongst the Druze (IB Tauris, 2016).
On this episode, Simon and Maria talk about activism and politics, the importance of people, Palestinians, Druze, Syria, statelessness and much more. - Mehr anzeigen