This executive training focuses on the economic dimensions of civil wars. It explores how economic life changes amid widespread violence and state breakdown. It also addresses how wartime political economic arrangements create durable and remarkably resilient socio-economic mechanisms and Read More …
On 10 July 2018, in the frame of the 2nd edition of the MEDirections Summer School, Prof. Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou (International History, Graduate Institute, Geneva) gave a lecture on “Theorising ISIS”. In case you were not able to attend the Read More …
Virginie Collombier (EUI), Agnès Favier (EUI), Yahya Alkubaisi (Iraqi Centre for Strategic Studies) and Thomas Husken (University of Lucerne) describe the main points discussed in the one-day workshop on “TRIBES AND GLOBAL JIHADISM”, held in Florence on 27 February 2018. Read More …
Against a thematic backdrop provided by the recent publication of ‘Tribes and Global Jihadism’ (Hurst, 2017), edited by Virginie Collombier and Olivier Roy, MEDirections welcomed Dr. Yvan Guichaoua (Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent) to give a lecture Read More …
Noha El Mikawy and Samir Makdisi, author and editor of the new book ‘Democratic Transitions in the Arab World’ talk to Catherine Cornet from the Middle East Directions programme at the Robert Schuman Centre during a coffee break while Read More …
Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir, the creators of the Egyptian film “Happily Ever After” talk with Catherine Cornet from the Middle East Directions Programme about their recent documentary. The film describes the love story of the filmmaker, who falls Read More …
MEDirections Research fellows Hamza Meddeb and Georges Fahmi discuss with Catherine Cornet the different trajectories of Political Islam in Egypt and Tunisia after the revolutions.
On 17 November 2016 Dr. Yehia al-Kubaisi delivered a seminar ‘The Future of Iraq after ISIS’ to the Middle East Directions programme at the Robert Schuman Center in the European University Institute, after which he gave this interview. Yehia al-Kubaisi Read More …
On 29 September 2016, Mr Gilles De Kerchove – EU Counterterrorism Coordinator, gave a keynote speech to the Robert Schuman Centre, after which he recorded this interview. The European Union is today under attack from jihadist terrorism, with a threat Read More …
