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Tag Archives: Arab Spring

Extract: Revolution is My Name
Middle East / Mona Prince

Extract: Revolution is My Name

Posted on December 2, 2014 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

Mona Prince’s Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir during the Arab Spring Continue reading →

Narrating Conflict in Lebanon and Palestine
Dina Matar / Middle East / Zahera Harb

Narrating Conflict in Lebanon and Palestine

Posted on July 24, 2013 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

With competing struggles over space, identity and memory, how should understanding long-term conflict in the Middle East be addressed?  Continue reading →

Turning Up the Volume
Middle East / Yasmine El Rashidi

Turning Up the Volume

Posted on July 2, 2013 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

Yasmine El Rashidi, contributor to the PEN-award-winning Writing Revolution, talks about growing up learning English: exile and community, being alienated and finding her voice. Continue reading →

Armed With Words (Yemen)
Jamal Jubran / Middle East

Armed With Words (Yemen)

Posted on May 30, 2013 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

In our final instalment from Writing Revolution, Jamal Jubran writes lightly and candidly about growing up an outsider in Yemen, and language’s ability to empower. Continue reading →

Coming Down From the Tower (Bahrain)
Ali Aldairy / Middle East

Coming Down From the Tower (Bahrain)

Posted on May 29, 2013 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

In our penultimate Writing Revolution extract, Ali Aldairy tells the story of a nation’s ignored revolution as a result of a near total media blackout from international and Arab news organisations. Continue reading →

Greetings to the Dawn (Tunisia)
Malek Sghiri / Middle East

Greetings to the Dawn (Tunisia)

Posted on May 28, 2013 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

Our Writing Revolution extracts continue from Tunisia and its Jasmine revolution, where Malek Sghiri talks of being a student activist, his kidnapping, imprisonment and detention. Continue reading →

Bayou and Laila (Libya)
Middle East / Mohamed Mesrati

Bayou and Laila (Libya)

Posted on May 27, 2013 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

For Mohamed Mesrati, writing about Libya’s revolution is a homecoming, a rejoining. Taken from Writing Revolution, Mesrati recalls his father reading him his favourite bedtime story, in Tripoli, during the 1990s. Continue reading →

We Are Not Swallows (Algeria)
Ghania Mouffok / Middle East

We Are Not Swallows (Algeria)

Posted on May 23, 2013 by theibtaurisblog • 1 Comment

From Algeria, full of fear and yearning, Ghania Mouffok’s entry in Writing Revolution  recounts the sad and bitter history of the country’s aborted uprisings against the status quo. Continue reading →

Cairo, City in Waiting (Egypt)
Middle East / Yasmine El Rashidi

Cairo, City in Waiting (Egypt)

Posted on May 22, 2013 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

In the latest instalment from Writing Revolution, Yasmine El Rashidi talks about her life before Egypt’s revolution and how it paved the way for her involvement in mass rebellion. Continue reading →

Wishful Thinking (Saudi Arabia)
Middle East / Safa Al Ahmad

Wishful Thinking (Saudi Arabia)

Posted on May 21, 2013 by theibtaurisblog • 1 Comment

‘Saudi Arabia is a mystery to me. Its history grudgingly unfolds in fits.’ In the second of our Writing Revolution extracts, Safa Al Ahmad contemplates the protest movement in Saudi Arabia.   Continue reading →

Diary of an Unfinished Revolution (Syria)
Khawla Dunia / Middle East

Diary of an Unfinished Revolution (Syria)

Posted on May 20, 2013 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

In the first of our extracts from Writing Revolution, winner of English PEN’s translation award, Khawla Dunia explores the interplay of subjective experience and objective reportage. Continue reading →

All the News That’s Fit to Tweet
David Faris / Middle East

All the News That’s Fit to Tweet

Posted on May 14, 2013 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

The Rassd News Network has become one of the most influential news sources in the Middle East. Created within an explicitly activist framework, it raises serious questions about the future of journalism. Continue reading →

Transformations in Egyptian Journalism
Politics / Richard Nield

Transformations in Egyptian Journalism

Posted on February 13, 2013 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

In case you missed or weren’t able to attend the launch and accompanying debate of Naomi Sakr’s new book at the Frontline Club, here’s Richard Nield to fill in the blanks. Continue reading →

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