In Memoriam: Faleh A. Jabar (1946–2018)

Speakers: Deniz Kandiyoti, SOAS; Renad Mansour, Chatham House; Charles Tripp, SOAS Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle East Centre Director This memorial honoured the late Faleh A. Jabar and his notable contribution to the study of Iraq and the wider Middle East. This event also marked the launch of his MEC paper From Identity Politics to Issue Politics: The Iraqi Protest Movement, which he presented at the Middle East Centre in July 2016. Faleh A. Jabar was a political sociologist, the CEO of Iraq Studies Institute and a Visiting Fellow at the School of Politics and Sociology at the University of London’s Birkbeck College. His research interests and expertise spanned various fields, including the sociology of religion, sociology of nation-building and state formation, tribes and modern socio-economic formations, and cultural discourses in Iraq and the greater Middle East. Jabar authored many books, including The Shiite Movement in Iraq, Post-Marxism and the Middle East, Ayatollahs, Sufis and Ideologues: State, Religion and Social Movements in Iraq and (as co-editor) Tribes and Power: Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Middle East, all published by Saqi books. Recorded on 7 June 2018. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deniz Kandiyoti is Emeritus Professor in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. Her research focuses on the fields of gender relations and developmental politics in the Middle East, specifically Turkey. Renad Mansour is Research Fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House. His research explores the situation of Iraq in transition and the dilemmas posed by state-building. Charles Tripp is Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East at SOAS, University of London and Fellow of the British Academy. His research interests include the nature of autocracy, state and resistance in the Middle East, the politics of Islamic identity and the relationship between art and power. Image credit: LSE Middle East Centre