Name: Who’s who in the Middle East? An introduction
Start: 2024-05-07T12:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-05-07T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Bergen Global CMI/UiB

$Who\u2019s who in the Middle East? An introduction$

WHO'S WHO IN THE MIDDLE EAST? AN INTRODUCTION
Pelle Valentin Olsen (UiB)
📍 Bergen Global and Zoom
The Middle East can seem like a patchwork of players, alliances, and interests. Old conflicts and new agreements can make it challenging to grasp what is really going on.
In this series, Pelle Valentin Olsen invites researchers to help you navigate the many actors in the region.
They will explain the role of state and non-state actors and their ideologies. What are the interests of regional and global powers? What are the histories we have not been taught What histories and perspectives have simply been reduced to footnotes in international news coverage?
Pelle will start the series with this introductory lecture where he will give an overview of the region.
The first conversation in the series will follow right after, at 13:00-14:00: Who’s who in the Middle East? The Houthis: https://fb.me/e/6Ohs5NiSE
ATTENDANCE
🌍 Free and open to all
📍 Join us onsite in Jekteviksbakken 31 and Zoom: https://uib.zoom.us/j/64569965767?pwd=cEFkN2hwOXp3WEFMUXdtTk1jdTkwdz09
🔸 Bergen Global is a joint initiative between CMI and UiB that addresses global challenges.
🤝 The event is the first part of the series "Who`s who in the Middle East"
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Pelle Valentin Olsen is a cultural, social, and transnational historian of the modern Middle East. His research and teaching focus on the history of leisure, labor, gender, sexuality, popular culture, and cultural production.