Photo Gallery: Nationalism, Islamism etc: Between Ideologies and Political Projects. Fourth session of the Valdai Club Middle East Conference

Is a revival of ideologies possible today? Will the political Islam remain a banner of protest or has its ideological potential burned out? What awaits the radical ideologies? Does the region have any prerequisites for emergence of the left? What positions can be taken by environmentalism, feminism, and subaltern groups’ ideologies in the Middle East? On March 31, the fourth session of the Valdai Discussion Club and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Middle East Conference, titled “Nationalism, Islamism etc: Between Ideologies and Political Projects”, was held. Amal Abou Zeid, Advisor to the President of Lebanon; Member of the Lebanese Parliament-Free Patriotic Movement/Honoris causa (2016–2018); Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, President, Emirates Policy Centre (UAE); Mehdi Sanaei, Senior Advisor to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Director of the Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies, participated. The session was moderated by Vyacheslav Belokrenitsky, Vice President of the Academic Council, Institute of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences