BUL Launches New Collaboration with King’s College London
The Beirut Urban Lab and King's College London launched a new collaborative project that will explore state-making and governance through an urban lens with a focus on Middle Eastern case studies as sites for broader theorization.
Marking the launch of this collaboration, a two-day workshop was held on June 17 and 18, 2024, gathering a group of 12 scholars who will be working on the project. A second workshop will be held at the American University of Beirut in 2025 in preparation for a special issue on the topic. Both workshops are funded by King’s Global Engagement Partnership Fund, the Independent Social Research Foundation, the Beirut Urban Lab and the Department of Political Economy’s Additional Research Fund.
The scholars in attendance were: Mona Harb and Ahmad Gharbieh (American University of Beirut); Dima Smaira; Kevin Mazur, Jeroen Gunning and Rafeef Ziadah (King’s College London); Azadeh Mashayekhi (UCL); Dena Qaddumi (LSE); Sarah El-Kazaz (SOAS); Motasem Abuzaid (University of Oxford); Somdeep Sen (Roskilde University); and Razaz Basheir (University of Cape Town).