EP 10 - Ghaya Ben Mbarek: On Tunisian Democra...

In episode 58 of Tahrir Podcast, Mairav Zonszein and Dahlia Scheindlin tuned in to discuss and dissect the upcoming Israeli Knesset elections, future scenarios, and what polling suggests. We discussed the banning of Arab parties from the election, the rise of the Israeli right, a ...  Show more

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

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 of other thing ...  Show more

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