Ghaya Ben Mbarek is a Tunisian journalist and former student activist.
In episode 10 of Tahrir podcast, Ben Mbarek talks about her student activism, Tunisian democracy, Nourredine Bhiri and Fathi Baldi's arrests, Ennahda, Kaes Saed's 25th of July measures, and much more.
Ben Mbarek's Twitter (@Ghaya_BM): https://twitter.com/Ghaya_BM
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May 29
EP 56 - Former Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed on Governance, the Arab Spring, and Lessons Learned
In episode 56 of Tahrir Podcast, Abdalla Nasef sits down in-person at Harvard University with former Tunisian Prime Minister Dr. Youssef Chahed for a conversation about Dr. Chahed's rise within Tunisian politics as the youngest head of government in Tunisia's history, and the lon ... Show More
1h 27m
Jul 2019
Narrating Conflict: In search of “truth”
Examining the experience in Egypt of using images to fight for social justice, we talk to Aida El Kashef, co-founder of the Cairo-based, independent media collective Mosireen. Through her experience as an activist and a journalist, we learn about the important role of journalism ... Show More
10m 2s
Jun 2021
78/ Pedagogies of Liberation, Gender and the Syrian Revolution (with Banah Ghadbian)
<p>This is a conversation with Banah Ghadbian. She’s a Syrian activist whose dissertation “Ululating from the Underground: Syrian Women’s Protests, Performances, and Pedagogies under Siege” was the subject of our conversation. As usual, we ended up talking about a lot ... Show More
1h 57m
Dec 2020
The Arab Spring, A Decade On
On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined, from Tunis, by Layli Foroudi to discuss the decade that has passed since a Tunisian fruit-seller sparked the protests and revolutions known as the ... Show More
32m 37s
May 2022
109/ The Link Between Pro-Palestine Activism, Anti-Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Arab World w/ Dana El-Kurd
<p>This is a conversation with <a href="https://danaelkurd.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Dana El-Kurd</a>, her second time on the podcast. We spoke about a paper that she wrote entitled "<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13510347.2022.2038567?journalCode=fdem20" ... Show More
1h 41m
Jul 2020
41/Rendering Our Struggles Visible: Palestine, #BlackLivesMatter and Syria (with Mariam Barghouti)
<p>This is a conversation with <a href="http://twitter.com/MariamBarghouti">Mariam Barghouti</a>. She’s a Palestinian-American writer and researcher currently based in Ramallah.</p>
<p>I spoke with Mariam about her growth as a Palestinian activist, #BlackLivesMatter, the Sy ... Show More
58m 57s
Sep 2021
Tunisia's Popular Authoritarian
This week on Babel, Jon speaks with Dr. Monica Marks, a professor of Middle East politics at NYU Abu Dhabi who has been thinking about Tunisia for almost 15 years. They discuss Tunisian President Kais Saied's recent moves to consolidate power, why Tunisians seem to support him, w ... Show More
37m 2s