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The role of mainstream and social media in the Arab spring

Comment Middle East  In the current climate it is important to ask what textbooks will say about the events that were triggered in 2011, when Mohammed Bouazizi self-immolated in an act of protest which reverberated across the Middle East and threw the region into a seminal process of transition. How will this part of history,

 
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NU hosts Jonathan Pollak

This week NU hosts Jonathan Pollak, an activist from Israel-Palestine. Jonathan will be highlighting the situation regarding Bassem Tamimi’s incarceration. At present Jonathan works with the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee in the Occupied West Bank. Read more on Bassem Tamimi’s case here. In 2002 Jonathan embraced the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli Occupation . As a co-founder of the group ‘Anarchists

 
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