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<div style="text-align:center"><b><font size="4" color="#000000">Lecture by Dr. Yasser Munif</font></b></div><p></p><p style="text-align:center"><b><font size="4" color="#000000">When: Wednesday, April 17, 6 pm</font></b></p>
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<b><font size="4" color="#000000">Where: 32-155</font></b></p><div>
<p><font color="#000000">Arab people’s hymns for dignity and freedom and their struggles for liberation from authoritarianism are transforming the political topography of the Arab world. The slow demise of despotism and the ongoing popular mobilizations will have lasting effects on the geopolitics of the region and beyond. The subterranean tectonic plates are moving slowly and will have tremendous implications on the Palestinian question. It’s too early to construct a roadmap of post-authoritarianism in the Arab region but it is possible to provide a preliminary reading of the structural changes that Palestinians will be facing in their struggles in the coming years. After assessing the political and social transformations that the region has experienced in the past two years, Yasser Munif offers an analytical framework to rethink some of the challenges that Palestinians and their allies will be facing in a new socio-political landscape.<br>
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<p><font color="#000000"><b>Dr. Yasser Munif</b> is a scholar in residence at Emerson College. He teaches courses on Race Relations, Urban Sociolgy, Nationalism, Political Economy, and Middle Eastern Politics and Society.He specializes in colonial history, racial identities, and the production of postcolonial space in marginal sites in France and its colonial territories.</font></p>
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