Archives: Movement

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Stick and Stones, Click and Phones

ALiGN Media Lab Director and Founder, Merlyna Lim, just publishes "Sticks and Stones, Clicks and Phones: Contextualizing the Role of Digital Media in the Politics of Transformation" [PDF]. This piece is a chapter of edited volume titled Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia (Springer, 2018) edited... More

Sunday, September 10, 2017

Arab Spring, fishballs, and umbrellas: The rise of politically incorrect nomenclature (part 1)

I remember when sitting in a fourth year seminar class here at Carleton, listening to students engaged in a discussion on contemporary issues that arose from the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa/Maghreb (MENA). One thought I couldn’t keep out of my mind was: why is it called the “Arab... More

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