The Ten Years on Project presents:
Teaching the Arab Uprisings
(Two Panels)
This is the monthly signature panel event of the Ten Years on Project: Mass Protests and Uprisings in the Arab World project. In this second installment of a year-long series of events and knowledge production by the collaborative Ten Years On project, panelists discussed a range of ideas and reflections related to pedagogy and teaching the Arab Uprisings.
Presented by the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program (GMU), Arab Barometer (Princeton), and Arab Studies Institute
Part 1 Speakers
Marwan Kraidy Teaching Creative Insurgency: From Beirut to Philidelphia
Nadya Sbaiti Teaching Protest and Possibility in the Classroom
Thomas Serres Teaching the Algerian Hirak: Trajectory, Specificites, and Promises
Rabab El-Mahdi (Re)presenting the Uprisings in the Classroom: Fault-lines and Dilemmas
Amaney Jamal (Moderator)
Bassam Haddad (Moderator)
Part 2 Speakers
James Gelvin Addressing the Unanswerable Question: Why Rebellions Occur?
Khalid Medani Teaching the Uprisings in the Sudan
Sarah Shields Chronologies, Contexts, and Pedagogies on Ten Years On
Ali Ahmida Teaching and Theorizing the Arab Uprisings: Challenges and Lessons
Hatim El-Hibri Media Studies and the Arab Uprisings
Amaney Jamal (Moderator)
Bassam Haddad (Moderator)
Sponsored by the “Ten Years On” Project Partners: 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), University of Chicago (Center for Contemporary Theory), 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), The Global Academy (MESA Affiliated), Institute of Palestine Studies.
Ten Years On
Mass Protests and Uprisings in the Arab World
December 17, 2020 marked the tenth anniversary of the start of the Arab uprisings in Tunisia. Beginning in 2011, mass uprisings swept North Africa and the Middle East, spreading from the shores of Tunisia to Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, and the Eastern Province of the Arabian Peninsula. A “second wave” of mass protests and uprisings manifested during 2019 in Sudan, Algeria, Lebanon, and Iraq. The persistence of demands for popular sovereignty even in the face of re-entrenched authoritarianism, imperial intervention, and civil strife is a critical chapter in regional and global history.
In an effort to mark, interrogate, and reflect on the Arab uprisings, we launch a yearlong set of events, reflections, and conversations. We hope to produce resources for educators, researchers, students, and journalists to understand the last decade of political upheaval historically and in the lived present.
Over the past decade, a plethora of events, texts, and artistic and cultural productions have navigated the last decade’s spectrum of affective and material registers. We hope to contribute to these efforts through a historically grounded, theoretically rigorous approach that collaboratively interrogates the multiple questions the Arab uprisings continue to pose.
