Talks & Panels EN Political Economy Politics Sociology 2016

Mamdouha Bobst Center for Peace and Justice – Princeton lecture

A Princeton lecture: neoliberalism banned "social justice" for a quarter century—and the Arab revolutions diagnosed the problem: unemployment, despotism, class inequality. No military solution to ISIS, only drying up its social sources.

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Talks & Panels EN History Politics 2012

Arab Revolution – AUB

The Arab revolutions are directed not only against the present but against the "until now"—the moment when the voiceless make the experts voiceless.

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Talks & Panels EN Political Economy Politics 2012

Social Justice is back? – Princeton lecture

Is social justice back? Neoliberalism banned it for a quarter century—and the Arab revolutions brought it back with "The people want": a return to the concepts of the national liberation phase.

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Papers EN History Politics Sociology 2004

Public Spheres and Urban Space: A Critical Comparative Approach

The text calls for a critical approach to the concept of the 'public sphere' in the Middle East, emphasizing that democracy requires popular power beyond theoretical debate to confront authoritarianism and the challenges of colonial history.

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Book Reviews EN Art & Literature 2003

Edward Said’s Orientalism revisited: translations and translators

A reading of Said's evolution: from Orientalism to "Imperialism is the export of identity"—warning against self-orientalizing and Occidentalism alike, and admitting his book sometimes relapses into what it critiques.

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