Speaker: Cristina Moreno-Almeida, King's College College
Chair: Shakuntala Banaji, LSE
This talk launches Cristina Moreno-Almeida’s book, ‘Rap Beyond Resistance: Staging Power in Contemporary Morocco’. In the book, Moreno-Almeida argues for a new way of looking at cultural resistance in the Arabic-speaking world that goes beyond secular liberal ideas of res ... Show More
Apr 14
Urban Exclusion in the City
In the final episode of this season, Ahmad Abu Hussien, an urban sociologist from Jordan, brings together academics and practitioners to explore theories of urban planning and design through case studies of Jordan and Dubai. This episode explores the concept of infrastructural ci ... Show More
34m 28s
Mar 17
Gendering the Archive: A Catalyst for Change in Women’s Rights in Egypt
In this episode, Diana Magdy, a gender equality specialist, feminist researcher and oral historian has a conversation with Professor Hoda Elsadda unpacking the politics of archiving, revealing archives as spaces of power and resistance rather than neutral repositories. Diana Magd ... Show More
32m 22s
Apr 2021
Violence Pendulum, Tunisia's Ennahda Movement, Strong Quotas/Weak Parties in Tunisia (S. 10, Ep. 13)
Emy Matesan of Wesleyan University talks about her latest book, The Violence Pendulum: Tactical Change in Islamist Groups in Egypt and Indonesia, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. In the book, she argues that Islamist groups alter their tactics in response to the perceived ... Show More
1 h
Apr 2021
Malta's Musical Bridge to Libya & the Arab World | Philip Ciantar
<p>Philip Ciantar is a senior lecturer in music at the School of Performing Arts, University of Malta, where he teaches ethnomusicology, world music, and more. Ciantar is the author of The Ma’lūf in Contemporary Libya: An Arab Andalusian Musical Tradition and Studies in Maltese P ... Show More
53m 4s
Oct 2023
Shouting in a Cage & Saudi Arabia and the GCC (S. 13, Ep. 7)
On this week's episode of the podcast, Sofia Fenner of Colorado College joins Marc Lynch to discuss her new book, Shouting in a Cage: Political Life After Authoritarian Co-optation in North Africa. The book offers new ways to understand co-optation’s power and its limits by exami ... Show More
1h 4m
Sep 2018
Women and the Egyptian Revolution: A Conversation with Nermin Allam (S. 7, Ep. 1)
Dr. Nermin Allam discusses her new book, Women and the Egyptian Revolution: Engagement and Activism During the 2011 Arab Uprisings, with Marc Lynch. Allam talks about how the she views the 2011 uprisings, and her book, which offers an oral history of women's engagement and histor ... Show More
24m 10s