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Jan 2018
1h 27m

Egypt as Effigy: Predatory Power, Hijack...

Lse Middle East Centre
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* We apologise for the abrupt ending of this podcast. The last few minutes of the recording were corrupted. Speaker: Adel Iskandar, Simon Fraser University Seven years since the popular uprising that shook Egypt, the relationships between state, society, social movements and corporate power have been reconfigured, perhaps even disfigured. On the eve of the ... Show More
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