SOAS Middle East Institute Art and Culture

The SMEI engages in research and outreach on all aspects of art and culture pertaining to the Middle East and North Africa region in collaboration with practitioners from diverse backgrounds across the globe.

Our public programming engages with visual art, photography, film, music, performance arts, and digital arts as creative and critical modes of expression that testify to the richness of the Middle East and North Africa.

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Director, SOAS Middle East Institute

Professor Lina Khatib

Dr Lina Khatib is an internationally renowned authority on the Middle East and Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute.

Research Associate, SOAS Middle East Institute

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi is a Research Associate at the SOAS Middle East Institute. He is columnist and researcher on social, political, and cultural affairs in the Arab Gulf states.

Lecturer in Islamic Arts

Dr Natasha Morris

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14 November 2022

The revolutionary movement in Iran and the media

Film screening and panel discussion. The panel will explore the new revolutionary movement in Iran and its media.

30 November 2021

Cleft Capitalism: The Social Origins of Failed Market Making in Egypt

18 October 2022

Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East

Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out to redraw the map of the Middle East in the wake of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.