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Oct 2020
33m 49s

الحلقة ١٣ - استراتيجيات النضال والرغبة ب...

The Lebanese Center For Policy Studies
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في حلقة هذا الأسبوع، تستضيف كارول أبي غانم عالمة الاجتماع والخبيرة في العمل اللاعنفي الدكتورة أوغاريت يونان للحديث عن مقاربتها للتنظيم السياسي، استراتيجيات النضال المختلفة، انتفاضة ١٧ تشرين، ولاستخلاص دروس من تجارب تاريخية أخرى في العالم.

In this week's episode, Carol Abi Ghanem hosts sociologist and non-violence education and action advocate Dr Ogarit Younan. They discuss her approach to organizing, different resistance strategies, and reflect on the October uprising while drawing lessons from other global comparative cases.

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