Launching the One-Year-Long Project, “Ten Years On: Mass Protests and Uprisings in the Arab World” (Video)

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Dec 18, 2020
Launching the One-Year-Long Project, “Ten Years On: Mass Protests and Uprisings in the Arab World” (Video)

Launching the One-Year-Long Project, “Ten Years On: Mass Protests and Uprisings in the Arab World” (Video)

By : Jadaliyya Reports

This live event/video represents the launch of the one-year-long project “10 Years On: Mass Protests and Uprisings in the Arab World.” Ten years ago on 17 December 2010, Bouazizi immolated himself, ushering in what has come to be known as the Arab Uprisings. It  addresses the contours of the project and introduces the partners involved. Our first panel will be held in late January 2021, and will address the broad historical context within which the uprisings take place.

Those unable to access the video via Facebook can watch it via Youtube.

Organized by: Arab Studies Institute, Princeton’s Arab Barometer, and George Mason’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Project

Co-sponsored by: Georgetown University (Center for Contemporary Arab Studies), American University of Beirut (Asfari Institute), ACSS, Brown University (Center for Middle East Studies), UC Santa Barbara (Center for Middle East Studies), Harvard University (Center for Middle East Studies), University of Exeter (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies), Birzeit University (Department of Political Science), Stanford University (Center for Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law), AUC Affiliates, Georgetown University (Qatar).

 

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Panel Video: Ziad Abu-Rish & Maya Mikdashi on the Beirut Explosion, Its Context, and Developments

On 17 August 2020, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University hosted a virtual panel titled "Beirut Explosion: Context and Developments," featuring Jadaliyya Co-Editors (and CCAS alumni) Ziad Abu-Rish and Maya Mikdashi, moderated by CCAS Director Joseph Sassoon.

The panel began with 15-minute presentations by each of Abu-Rish and Mikdashi. Abu-Rish set the stage by discussing what is known about the explosion, its aftermath, and its broader contexts. Mikdashi then spoke on the question of meaningful change in Lebanon and what that would look like. The remainder of the panel featured responses by the presenters to audience questions, moderated by Sassoon.

Panelists


Ziad Abu-Rish is a 2020-21 American Druze Foundation Fellow at CCAS. He is Co-Director of the MA Program in Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. Abu-Rish’s research interests center on the intersections between state formation, economic development, and popular mobilizations in the mid-twentieth-century Levant, especially Lebanon and Jordan. Abu-Rish holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of California Los Angeles and an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. He serves as Co-Editor of Arab Studies Journal and Jadaliyya, and has been based in Beirut since December 2019. He is currently a research fellow at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS).

Maya Mikdashi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and a lecturer in the program in Middle East Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University and holds an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of the state, and is currently completing a book manuscript that examines political difference, sexual difference, sovereignty, secularism and state power in Lebanon. Maya uses both archival and ethnographic research in her work, and is particularly interested in the everyday ways that people talk about, imagine, work within, challenge, and turn towards state power. She is a co-founding editor of Jadaliyya.

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