SOAS Middle East Institute Environment and Energy

The SMEI engages in crafting policy-oriented solutions to challenges related to the environment and energy transition.

The Middle East and North Africa region is at the heart of policy debate on climate change and energy transition, and is witnessing growing innovation and interest in sustainability. The SMEI’s research and dialogues aim to support positive transformations in this regard in collaboration with experts and organizations from diverse backgrounds.

The SMEI is a member of the International Advisory Board of Think 28 (T28), an official research and policy advisory platform for the global climate change conference COP28.

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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 Fellow, SOAS Middle East Institute

Dr Maria Gloria Polimeno

Comparative politics with a particular emphasis on transformative authoritarianism and political legitimacy in the Middle East.

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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.