[LCM Events] Fwd: Palestine@MIT: Lecture by Dr. Yasser Munif

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*Palestine @ MIT Presents:*
 *Lecture by Dr. Yasser Munif*

*When: Wednesday, April 17, 6 pm*

*Where: 32-155*

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.

*Dr. Yasser Munif* 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.
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