Arab Resistance in the Diaspora Post-Arab Spring: Potentials, Limitations, and Future Prospects

Online lecture by Dr Sahar Khamis, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. The lecture is no. 3/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

Ten years after the eruption of the Arab Spring uprisings, it is essential to revisit some of the most important social, political and mediated transformations, which took place in this volatile region. One of the areas which are worthy of deep investigation and closer analysis is the role of self-exiled Arab activists and regime opponents in the diaspora. This presentation will shed light on the shifting potentials and limitations of this important phenomenon in an equally shifting region, and will also predict some of its prospects.

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About

Dr Sahar Khamis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies and the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the co-author of the books: Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement and Citizen Journalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). She is the co-editor of the book: Arab Women’s Activism and Socio-Political Transformation: Unfinished Gendered Revolutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Lecture Series

The research project Mediatized Diaspora – Contentious Politics among Arab Media Users in Europe at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, invites you to the fall 2021 online lecture series on Middle Eastern media, diaspora and politics Post-Arab Spring.

All lectures will take place on Thursdays at 17:15 (CET).

For any inquiries, please contact project leader: Dr Ehab Galal