Podcasts from the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies episodes:

• June 12, 2012Jordan’s King Abdullah and the “Tribal” Problem: The Challenges of Patronage, Protests, and Reform

  A talk by Jillian Schwedler, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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• June 12, 2012Reformer to Tyrant: The Corruption of Bashar al-Asad and the Syrian System

  A talk by David Lesch, Trinity University.

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• June 12, 2012The Revolutionary Process in Egypt: a horizontalist challenge to personalized power?

  A talk by John Chalcraft, London School of Economics.

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• June 12, 2012Personalism in Decline? Collective Rule and the Prospects for Military Abdication in Egypt

  A talk by Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University.

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• June 12, 2012Historical and contemporary patterns of regime change in Arab republics: revolutions, coups, transitions, interventions, dynastic succession - and back?

  A talk by Sheila Carapico, University of Richmond.

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• June 12, 2012The Arab Dark Age, 1974-2011: Sociological Features of the Road to Revolution

  A talk by Mohammed Bamyeh, University of Pittsburgh.

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• June 12, 2012The Cult of Personality in the Arab World

  A talk by Joseph Sassoon, Georgetown University/Oxford University.

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• June 12, 2012Women, Democracy and Dictatorship

  A talk by Sami Zubaida, Birbeck College, University of London.

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• May 31, 2012Resentment of the Iranian Intelligentsia (in Persian)

  A lecture by Daryoush Ashouri

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• May 29, 20122012 Levi Della Vida Conference:"Structures of Personalized Power in the Modern Middle East: Presidents, Prime Ministers and Party Bosses" Keynote Address

  Keynote lecture by 2012 Levi Della Vida Award recipient Roger Owen, Harvard University

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