Protests in the Middle East

Pace, M. (Participant)
Jillian Schwedler (Speaker)
Morten Valbjørn (Organizer)
Jeroen Gunning (Speaker)
Dima Smaira (Speaker)
Younes Saramifar (Speaker)

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Description

Workshop on protests in the Middle East, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

Period	2 Nov 2023
Event type	Workshop
Location	Aarhus, DenmarkShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

protest
Middle East
Jordan
geographies of power
geographies of dissent
Lebanon
Palestine
Egypt
Iran
democratization studies
Danish Institute in Damascus

Documents & Links

The workshop will be centered around Jillian Schwedler’s recent book, Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent, which looks at small and large protests in Jordan from before the establishment of the kingdom till today. Jeroen Gunning (King’s College London) and Dima Smaira (the American University Beirut) will subsequently compare insights from Jordan with experiences from Lebanon, Palestine, and Egypt. There will be an additional presentation (online) by Younes Saramifar (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), who will talk about experiences from Iran. Jillian Schwedler is Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York’s Hunter College and Senior Fellow at the Crown Center at Brandeis University. Her book Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent (Stanford University Press) was voted a National Endowment for Democracy Notable Book of 2022. See also http://jillianschwedler.com/ The event is supported by the Danish Institute in Damascus and the IRFD research project TOI: Bringing in the Other Islamists (www.ps.au.dk/toi)

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