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In many ways my new book was a natural progression from my previous monograph, Political Repression in Bahrain. Political repression is all about how hegemonic forces attempt to weaken or destroy social movements and opposition, and a key ..

I had started my PhD at the beginning of 2011, just before the Bahrain Uprising began. Initially my plan had been to study the use of social media in Bahrain, but this changed abruptly as the scale of regime brutality became more evident.

The murder of Khashoggi is likely to have a further chilling effect on already fearful critics of the Saudi regime. It has also exposed the extent of the online disinformation operation working to silence critics of the Kingdom and Mohammed bin Salman.