Shows
YaleUniversityElon Buys Twitter: What’s Next for the World's Town Square?Join Belabbes Benkredda and Raheel Khursheed for the inaugural Public Sphere Salon @Yale. Belabbes and Raheel will discuss "Elon Buys Twitter: What’s Next for the World's Town Square?". The Public Sphere Salon @Yale is brought to you by the International Leadership Center at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.2022-11-1654 min
Intergalactic Tarboush009 - Democracy is about power distribution, not votesIn this episode, Iyad and Ahmed discuss how a broad range of political and economic factors can impact democracy, and how the concept of a 'public sphere' can either strengthen or weaken democratic nations.Episode Timetags:05:00 - Centralisation of political and economic activity & weakened democracy06:00 - Economic inequality as a threat to democracy07:00 - APPGs in the UK, captured by the private sector - article referenced: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/17/lobbying-fears-as-mps-interest-groups-receive-13m-from-private-firms10:00 - French colonial censorship in Syria11:00 - "Public sphere" theory & democracy (+ shout-out to...2022-03-1522 min
Tech Empire with Michael Kwet and Tshi MalatjiArab Spring, pt 2: Jamal Khashoggi and Government Repression w/Iyad el-Baghdadi & Belabbes BenkreddaThis episode welcomes Iyad el-Baghdadi and Belabbes Benkredda to discuss the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Today’s show is the second of 2 parts. We explore the murder of Jamal Kashoggi, whom our guests knew personally; government repression, the situation in Palestine, Iyad el-Baghdadi's life journey, and the US role in the Middle East.Iyad el-Baghdadi is among the most influential human rights activists who rose to prominence during the Arab Spring protests. He is one of the top voices in the online Arab world, and has been published at The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Foreign Policy. He...2018-11-1650 min
Tech Empire with Michael Kwet and Tshi MalatjiArab Spring, pt 1: Twitter, Revolution & Global Politics with Iyad el-Baghdadi & Belabbes BenkreddaThis episode welcomes Iyad el-Baghdadi and Belabbes Benkredda to discuss the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Today’s show is the first of 2 parts. We explore the use of Twitter and social media in the Middle East, the Arab Spring uprisings, the influence of the Obama administration during the Arab Spring, and the role of Putin and China in the Middle East and world affairs. Part 2 will air next week and cover additional topics.Iyad el-Baghdadi is among the most influential human rights activists who rose to prominence during the Arab Spring protests. He is one of the top voices in...2018-10-261h 03
Arab Tyrant Manual Podcast013 - Can Debate Save the Arab World?A discussion between Belabbes Benkredda, Founding Director of the Munathara Initiative, and Iyad El-Baghdadi, Nasser Weddady and Ahmed Gatnash, on the public sphere, what teaching young people to debate can do for the world, and how to normalise civilised exchange of ideas and evaluation of them on their merits.
Belabbes is currently Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School's Information Society Project, and can be found on Twitter (@AbuLavinia). The Munathara Initiative (@Munathara) can be found at http://www.munathara.com/2018-08-0638 min
The Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program2016 World Fellow Belabbes BenkreddaBelabbes Benkredda, the founder of Munathara Initiative, a debating forum in the Arab world, discusses the post-truth era and how to protect the public sphere.2016-12-0218 min
Terms Of Reference PodcastTOR045: Munathara Initiative with Belabbes BenkreddaBelabbes Benkredda is an award-winning social innovator, open debate advocate and the founder of the Munathara Initiative, a fledging online and television debate forum for Arab youth. In 2013, he received the Democracy Award from the National Democratic Institute in Washington, DC for his work in fostering citizen participation in the Arab public sphere.
Prior to the Initiative, Belabbes worked with the German Foreign Office, the League of Arab States and the Council for Arab-British Understanding. Since moving to Dubai in 2005, he’s been a government consultant specialized on public diplomacy in the Arab world, a frequent television comment...2014-11-0331 min