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Nevine El Nossery’s latest book

Posted on May 4, 2023

Professor El Nossery is thrilled to announce that her new book, “Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art”, is published and available for order from Palgrave Macmillan. Faculty Director Steven Brooke interviewed her about this exciting book.

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The Periphery Converges on the Center: The Spatial Dynamics of Political Protests in Amman’s Built Environment

Posted on February 21, 2022

Jillian Schwedler (City University of New York) In the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the state’s political geography is incongruent with its geography of neoliberal investment. That is, large portions of the regime’s traditional East Bank …

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Shadow Urban Lives in Post-Revolutionary Cairo

Posted on February 21, 2022

Omnia Khalil (City University in New York) Since 2015, Cairo have been massively urbanely transformed according to a new urban agenda. My presentation would unpack these socio-economic transformation, and the transitions in Cairene lives. The …

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Contesting the post-revolution city: Popular urbanism, participation, and the local state in Tunisia

Posted on February 21, 2022

Lana Salman (Harvard University) A little over a decade after the Arab revolution, how have marginalized Tunisians claimed political space, at what level, and to which ends? What do these experiences of claiming political space …

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Memory, Preservation and Post-Revolutionary Egyptian Digital Visual Cultures

Posted on February 21, 2022

Nancy Demerdash (Albion College) Many might argue that the prospects of a progressive politics and democratic governance that the 2011 Egyptian revolution sought to realize have completely vanished. Those revolutionary aspirations for social change, political …

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Art and Revolution: Aesthetics of Resistance in and beyond Tunisia

Posted on February 21, 2022

Siobhan Shilton (University of Bristol) The revolutions that began to sweep across countries in North Africa and the Middle East in December 2010 – like other revolutions in diverse modern historical contexts – have often …

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Back to Writing but Not the Same River 

Posted on February 21, 2022

Shereen Abounaga (Cairo University) In the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty first century women’s presence was conspicuous through the arts; terms like subjectivity formation and self-expression were …

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Exclusion, Repression, and Ethnic Mobilization in Divided Societies: Iraqi Dissident Elites and anti-Ba’athist Resistance (1991-2003)

Posted on February 21, 2022

How do common legacies and shared histories of repression shape the mobilization calculations of dissident elites in divided societies? What factors bind and fracture consensus formation and ethnic elite bargaining during democratic openings? Focusing on …

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State-led Mobilization in Iran: Organizational Infrastructure, War-time Origin, and Threats

Posted on February 21, 2022

Ali Kadivar (Boston College) When the United States assassinated General Qasem Soleymani in Iran, the correspondents, TV anchors, and viewers all were stunned by the massive turnout in his funeral in Tehran. While at the …

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Online Repression and Tactical Evasion: Evidence from the 2020 Day of Anger Protests in Egypt

Posted on February 21, 2022

Neil Ketchley (Oxford University) Following the 2011 Arab Spring, autocrats have sought to limit citizens’ ability to publicize offline protests over social media. In this paper, we explore how users can adapt to these restrictions. …

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