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Live Discussions: Arab Spring – What it Accomplished & Where It Failed
The Arab Spring (Arabic: الربيع العربي) was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in response to corruption and economic stagnation and was influenced by the Tunisian Revolution. After 11 years, the lives of people in Arab Spring countries have improved in certain aspects but worsened in others.
Dearborn Scholars Eps. 2: Prof. Sally Howell [Video/Podcast]
Sally Howell is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Director of the Center for Arab American Studies. Her books include Citizenship and Crisis: Arab Detroit After 9/11, Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade, and Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past. Old Islam in Detroit received the 2015 Arab American Book Award. Howell is currently a curator for the Halal Metropolis exhibition series exploring the politics and aesthetics of Muslim visibility in Detroit.
Dearborn Scholars Eps. 1: Prof. Ronald Stockton [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eae5Kg0yvuA Dearborn Scholars is a series of Live Broadcasts and Podcasts by Dearborn Blog under the Open Discussions program hosted by Wissam Charafedine (wissamc.com). The first episode was broadcast on March 10, 2021. The program consists of episodes and each episode is an interview with one of the scholars from Dearborn, that is professors, teachers, ...
Eps. 2 Dearborn Blog Live Discussions – The Threat of Cancel Culture on Free Speech [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXAAZq9-KaM Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts. But this needed reckoning has also intensified a ...
Eps. 21 We Are In This Together – Olga Kovtun – Allatra Movement [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgLd0Yqe-1w Olga Kovtun is a marketing professional, that helps her clients with marketing strategy development, websites, and branding. Olga Kovtun is a volunteer for ALLATRA International Public Movement organization, project Creative Society (www.allatraunites.com) - a global project run by volunteers from more than 140 countries with a goal to find out, how do we envision ...
Eps. 20 We Are In This Together – Antonio Rafael – Southwest Detroit [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMnK_zU_KqE Antonio Cosme is an indigenous (Coahuiltecan and Boricua) writer, public speaker, entrepreneur, radical economist, educator, artist, beekeeper and farmer from Southwest, Detroit. Much of his work has been dedicated to lecturing, writing, and acting in opposition to the neoliberal assault on Detroit and water. His media, interviews, viral street art, blogs, and articles have ...
Eps. 19 We Are In This Together – Dr. Sadaf Jaffer – Dearborn [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cctX8ddIycw Sadaf Jaffer is an elected official, scholar, and activist. She was first elected to the Montgomery Township Committee in 2017. In January of 2019, she was sworn in as mayor, becoming the first South Asian woman to serve as mayor of a municipality in New Jersey, and the first Muslim woman to serve as ...
Eps. 1 Dearborn Blog Live Discussions – Anti-Statue Movement, Between Reform & Absurdity [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZD5dYKjjzA "The United States’ frenzy of statuary iconoclasm has taken a turn into the theater of the absurd. Knocking down or defacing statues of national founders or heroes not only displays ignorance of history but also assaults the principles of Western civilization that allow for racial progress to continue." Henry Olsen "I think a statue ...
Eps. 18 We Are In This Together – Dr. Sally Howell – Dearborn [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SOhTS0Hl3Q Sally Howell is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Director of the Center for Arab American Studies. Her books include Citizenship and Crisis: Arab Detroit After 9/11 (2009, Russell Sage Foundation Press), Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade (2011, Wayne State University Press), and Old Islam in Detroit: ...
Eps. 17 We Are In This Together – Sharine Atif – Cairo [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGbd0GDVFrE We are in this together is a non-scripted, live, non-profit, broadcast by Dearborn Blog, hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, to have conversations, that become oral history records, of our lives during the COVID19 pandemic also known as coronavirus Pandemic. These are personal stories of our lives during these unprecedented social isolation measures, in a globalized ...
Eps. 16 We Are In This Together – Lea Gorius- From France [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLgGCBQVb-k We are in this together is a non-scripted, live, non-profit, broadcast by Dearborn Blog, hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, to have conversations, that become oral history records, of our lives during the COVID19 pandemic also known as coronavirus Pandemic. These are personal stories of our lives during these unprecedented social isolation measures, in a globalized ...
Eps. 15 We Are In This Together – Omar Al-Fotihi – From Yemen, Local to NY [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQBu8RhVYM0 Omar Al-Fotihi is a Multimedia Producer at Human Rights Watch. He films, produces, and edits video and multimedia stories with a special focus on the Middle East and North Africa. Omar has supervised and trained HRW staff on video storytelling and led creative meetings. His work has been broadcasted globally on news outlets, displayed ...
Eps. 14 We Are In This Together – Shatha Sbeta – From Libya to California [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thgovYBlf8o We are in this together is a non-scripted, live, non-profit, broadcast by Dearborn Blog, hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, to have conversations, that become oral history records, of our lives during the COVID19 pandemic also known as coronavirus Pandemic. These are personal stories of our lives during these unprecedented social isolation measures, in a globalized ...
Eps. 13 We Are In This Together – Shireen Soliman from NYC [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPYXvh8ANs4 We are in this together is a non-scripted, live, non-profit, broadcast by Dearborn Blog, hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, to have conversations, that become oral history records, of our lives during the COVID19 pandemic also known as coronavirus Pandemic. These are personal stories of our lives during these unprecedented social isolation measures, in a globalized world. ...
Eps. 12 We Are In This Together – Sami Abdallah from Germany [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXp9WVerWqA We are in this together is a non-scripted, live, non-profit, broadcast by Dearborn Blog, hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, to have conversations, that become oral history records, of our lives during the COVID19 pandemic also known as coronavirus Pandemic. These are personal stories of our lives during these unprecedented social isolation measures, in a globalized world. ...
Eps. 10 We Are In This Together – Abdul AlMutairi from Saudi Arabia [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fXV38BNwIo We are in this together is a non-scripted, live, non-profit, broadcast by Dearborn Blog, hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, to have conversations, that become oral history records, of our lives during the COVID19 pandemic also known as coronavirus Pandemic. These are personal stories of our lives during these unprecedented social isolation measures, in a globalized world. ...
Eps. 9 We Are In This Together – Talal Matar from Kuwait [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVuQ4dAzCMA We are in this together is a non-scripted, live, non-profit, broadcast by Dearborn Blog, hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, to have conversations, that become oral history records, of our lives during the COVID19 pandemic also known as coronavirus Pandemic. These are personal stories of our lives during these unprecedented social isolation measures, in a globalized world. ...
Eps. 8 We Are In This Together – Hadi Chatila from Beirut [Video/Podcast]
We are in this together is a non-scripted, live, non-profit, broadcast by Dearborn Blog, hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, to have conversations, that become oral history records, of our lives, human lives, during the COVID19 pandemic also known as coronavirus Pandemic. These is personal stories of our lives during these unprecedented social isolation measures, in a ...
Eps. 7 We Are In This Together – Hanan Yahya from Detroit [Video/Podcast]
Hanan Ali Yahya is a first-generation Yemeni-American raised in Detroit. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 2016 where she studied Urban Studies and Entrepreneurship. She currently works as the Community and Policy Coordinator for Detroit City Council Member Raquel Castaneda-Lopez. We Are In This Together is an unscripted live broadcast program that collects ...
From Decided, to Undecided, to Voting for Abdul El-Sayed
Politics is difficult for me to navigate, because I don’t like being beholden to a political template, political rhetoric, and I like to believe that human beings are multidimensional in that they do not fit nicely into categories. It’s ironic, because I am a psychiatrist, and we diagnose patients based on diagnostic criteria and categories. ...
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