Filter:
What Divides People and Makes them Angry?
What Divides People and Makes them Angry? 9th Jun 2021 This essay is part of a SEPAD report reflecting on the Middle East in 2050. Drugs in the MENA: an unexplored force shaping anger, divisions and discontent The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is at the centre of numerous investigations, which... Read More
Disposable Lives: Bahrain’s Sacrifice Zones
Disposable Lives: Bahrain’s Sacrifice Zones 7th Jun 2021 This essay is part of a SEPAD report reflecting on the Middle East in 2050 The crisis of political repression in Bahrain continues to challenge Western foreign policy approaches to the country.  Long-standing United Kingdom (UK) and United States... Read More
Collectivizing Trauma and Narrative in the Syrian War: Sectarianization and Ontological Security 4th Jun 2021 This essay is part of a SEPAD report reflecting on the Middle East in 2050.  The Syrian conflict has often been described as a clash of identities between minority Alwaites and majority Sunnis (Balanche, 2018: xi; Lesch, 2012: 101). Today there is... Read More
The Middle East in 2050: Precarious Politics and the Future of the State 1st Jun 2021 This essay is part of a SEPAD report reflecting on the Middle East in 2050.  As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, the contours of political life across the Middle East appeared to have entered a period of consolidation. Following the... Read More
الكشف عن تجليات الواقع المرير 25th May 2021 الكشف عن تجليات الواقع المرير[1]  الحياة اليومية للفلسطينيين في القدس الشرقية المتنازع عليها  عادل رويشد[2]  ألصقت قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي... Read More
Funding for New Project Received
Funding for New Project Received 12th Apr 2021 SEPAD is delighted to announce that it has received funding from Henry Luce Foundation to work on a one year project titled The End of Sectarianism. The project critically reflects on the contestation of sectarian identities across the Middle East,... Read More
Publications and Activities - Mar 2021
Publications and Activities - Mar 2021 5th Mar 2021 Our Fellows have been incredibly productive over the past year. Below is a selection of some of these activities: Simon Mabon Houses built on sand: Violence, sectarianism and revolution in the Middle East (Manchester University Press, 2020)  Protest,... Read More
Abir Chaaban Award
Abir Chaaban Award 7th Oct 2020 The Inaugural Abir Chaaban Award:  In recognition of Abir Chaaban’s life and work, SEPAD announces the launch of an annual prize to go to the PhD student or Early Career Researcher who has made the best contribution to community building and... Read More
Consociational Power-Sharing Performance: Assessing a Mixed Record
Consociational Power-Sharing Performance: Assessing a Mixed Record 18th Sep 2020 This post was originally published in Arabic on the LAU’s Institute for Social Justice and Conflict Resolution website, available here: http://sas.lau.edu.lb/institutes/isjcr/publications/ It is reproduced in English with LAU's kind permission.The... Read More
View More
.