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Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfLSE Literary Festival 2017 | African Revolutions: From the streets to the written word [Audio]Speaker(s): Yasmine El Rashidi, Samar Samir Mezghanni, Nii Ayikwei Parkes | The Arab Spring was a revolutionary wave of demonstrations, protests, riots and civil wars that began on 17 December 2010 and dominated the news for most of 2011. In the five years since the people of Tunisia and other countries took to the streets to protest against their governments, a number of writers have shifted away from realism and turned to science fiction to describe the grim political realities faced by the region’s citizens. Although dystopian themes are not entirely new in Arabic fiction, these have become much more prominent in re...2017-02-251h 31
The Tunisian Revolution: Origins, Course and AftermathYouth Activism in Tunisia: From Occupying Streets to Liberating InstitutionsSamar Samir Mezghanni (University of Cambridge) gives the first talk in Panel 6: Re-ordering Society, part of The Tunisian Revolution: Origins, Course and Aftermath2014-10-2716 min
The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2013Rewriting the RevolutionShaimaa Khalil looks at the Arab Spring through the eyes of prominent writers Egypt's Sara Khorshid, Libyan author Ghazi Gheblawi, Tunisia's Samar Samir Mezghanni, Farea Al-Muslimi from Yemen and Syrian author Samar Yazbek.2013-09-0227 min