"Whatever Happened to the Arab Spring?"- Lecture by Dr. Asef Bayat
Department: History
Date and Time: November 12, 2014 | 3:30 PM-5:30 PMEvent Location: Social & Behavior Sciences Gateway 1517
Event Details
CGPACS presents Dr. Asef Bayat
Just a few years back, waves of uprising swept the Arab world. What did those uprisings achieve, if anything? Should we--and do participants--see them as a disappointment and failure? Or is there something that remains to cherish and cultivate? In this talk, I review the paradoxical experiences of the Arab risings of 2011 and articulate what I propose is a logic governing post-revolution developments in general, and in Arab societies in particular.