Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East

Speaker: Nelida Fuccaro, SOAS; Ulrike Freitag, ZMO; Rasmus Christian Elling, University of Copenhagen Chair: Fran Tonkiss, LSE Nelida Fuccaro launches her edited book 'Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East', with two of the contributors to the volume, exploring violence in the public lives of modern Middle Eastern cities, approaching violence as an individual and collective experience, a historical event, and an urban process. In reconstructing the violent pasts of cities, new vistas on modern Middle Eastern history are opened, offering alternative and complementary perspectives to the making and unmaking of empires, nations, and states. Recorded on 5 October 2016.