LSE Middle East

Save the date for 27 March and join us for an LSE Music Research Network event featuring our Research Officer, @Polly_Withers.

She will explore the gendered and sexual politics of music under settler colonialism and uneven globalisation in #Palestine.

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ورقة بحثية جديدة بقلم أسيل الرقم وشريفة الشلفان وألكساندرا غوميز ( @a_alragam @AlshalfanS @xpgomes3 ).
تسلّط الورقة الضوء على التحديات البيئية التي تواجه الكويت، وكيفية التوجه نحو الاستدامة في الكويت مع التركيز على قطاعات الإسكان والطاقة والنقل. researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/1408…

Kuwait faces significant environmental challenges, with a gap between climate ambitions and implementation.

A recent paper by @xpgomes3, @a_alragam, @AlshalfanS & team explores this gap across the housing, energy and transport sectors.

researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/1302…

School leadership in #Kuwait is shaped by increasing centralisation, ongoing reforms and socio-cultural norms.

A new paper by Nidal Al Haj Sleiman examines how these factors constrain school leaders’ agency and practice.

researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/1414…

‘The #kafala system does not end when the law changes’

For the blog, @sdkassis discusses migrant labour governance across the Gulf and Lebanon, and the gap between legal reform and practical protection for workers, in an interview with James U. Cole.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2026/10/15…