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First Wednesday: Iran’s Green Revolution and the Arab Spring
Two years after Iranians took to the streets to protest against the apparent rigging of the presidential elections we will be examining the impact of the Arab Spring. What has been the response of the government of Iran to the uprisings? Could they inspire further protests among the people? We will also be looking at the power struggle between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the conservative clerics and asking what it could mean for Iran’s future.
The ‘Arab Spring’ and Iran: What’s become of the Green movement?
Download this episode View in iTunes Watch the event here. An interesting post on PBS Frontline by Hossein Borujerdi discusses Iran and the ‘Arab Spring. The subject is the focus of tonight’s First Wednesday where we will be looking at the power struggles within the government and what has become of its Green pro-democracy movement. […]
FULLY BOOKED Insight with Leila Ahmed: A Quiet Revolution
Leila Ahmed was raised in Cairo in the 1940’s, by a generation of women who never dressed in veils and headscarves. To them, they seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the veil. Why, Ahmed asks, did this change take root so swiftly, and what does this shift mean for women, Islam, and the West.
Leila Ahmed, who is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School, will be joining us at the Club in conversation with Azadeh Moaveni, Iranian-American writer, journalist and author of Lipstick Jihad, to discuss her new book A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America and her surprising discoveries about Muslim women, Islamism and democracy.
Leila Ahmed and Azadeh Moaveni: the resurgence of the veil
Why are so many Muslim women around the world choosing to cover themselves when previous generations had decided against wearing the veil? This is the question Leila Ahmed sets out to answer in her book A Quiet Revolution, the veil’s resurgence from the Middle East to America. Having grown up in the 1940s in a family where […]
Realignment in the Arab world – What does it mean for Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel?
Download this episode View in iTunes With a panel of experts and journalists we will be examining the political realignment taking place in the Middle East and North Africa. We will be asking what the shifts in Arab world mean for Israel, Iran and Saudi Arabia: What is Israel’s likely response to the emerging democracies […]
Realignment in the Arab world: what are Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran worried about?
Watch event here. The impact of the Arab Spring on three regional neighbours: Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran and how they might respond to the changing political landscape was the focus of last night’s discussion at the Frontline Club. Chaired by Sam Farah, lead presenter of BBC Arabic’s flagship interactive programme Nuqtat Hewar (Talking Point), the […]
Screening – Amnesty! When They Are All Free
Amnesty! When They Are Free takes an unprecedented look into the world of Amnesty International and how the organisation has changed the world for the better. Despite their efforts, however, Amnesty International cannot solve everthing, and the film leaves the lingering question: have organisations such as Amnesty curbed the number of acts of violence that people commit against each other?
Analysis and debate at the Frontline Club : making sense of the Middle East
Our discussion on Tuesday looking at Realignment in the Arab World – and what it means for Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel, is the latest in a series of events this year which have sought to explain and analyse events in the Middle East and North Africa since the governments of Tunisia and Egypt were toppled […]
Leila Ahmed: The Quiet Revolution – women and the veil
Download this episode View in iTunes Throughout the early part of the 20th century there was a trend towards unveiling. In 1923 the Egyptian feminist Hoda Sha’rawi removed her veil,declaring it a thing of the past. Thirty years later in 1955, Albert Hourani, the Oxford historian and bestselling author of A History of the Arab […]
A Q&A with Julian Assange (part I): on the Arab Spring, phone hacking, and WikiLeaks’ ethics
Yesterday WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize gold medal for Peace with Justice at the Frontline Club. You can read our report of events here. After Assange gave his acceptance speech, there was time for a question and answer session. He spoke in depth in reponse to many questions, giving insight […]
This week on Frontlne blogs: from whistleblowers to Midan Tahrir
For a round up of the special Frontline Club/ New Statesman whistleblowers event on Saturday 9 April, take a look at Ryan Gallagher’s posts: Whistleblowers make the world a safer place debate Report: Whistleblowers make the world a safer place debate Report: Whistleblowers make the world a safer place debate (II) You can listen to […]
Why the revolution should leave Midan Tahrir, for a moment at least
Davide Morandini on the opposition’s decision to suspend demonstrations, and cancel today’s protests calling for the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) to step down. There is not much to do in Midan Tahrir for the revolution, now less than ever. This is what most of the Egyptian opposition forces seem to realise in these dramatic days […]
Can Arab state-owned media recover from crisis of credibility?
Does state media have a role to play in the Arab world in the wake of revolutions in the region? A panel of experts and a packed audience discussed this at last night’s event, which was chaired by author and broadcaster Tom Fenton and in association with the BBC College of Journalism. You can listen […]
FULLY BOOKED On the media: what does the future hold for Arab state media?
Join us at the Frontline Club when we will be discussing what the future holds for state media, the impact of channels such as Al Jazeera and BBC Arabic, and the ways that people are using the internet and other social media to circumvent that power.
Can the West be trusted to support democracy in the Middle East and North Africa?
What can Western powers do to aid genuine democracy in the Middle East and North Africa and can they be trusted, given the way that authoritarian regimes have been propped up in pursuit of ‘stability’ in the past? These were two themes that emerged from April’s First Wednesday discussion last night, which focused on the way […]
FRONTLINE CLUB SPECIAL: Protest, technology and the end of fear
EXTERNAL EVENT AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN
The start of 2011 will be remembered as a period in which the barrier of fear fell across the Middle East and North Africa as people took to the streets demanding freedom from the tyrants who had governed for so long.
No one can predict where these momentous events will lead and what the repercussions will be for years to come.
For this special event held at the The Royal Institution of Great Britain the Frontline Club and BBC Arabic Service will be bringing together some of the key players, journalists and experts to discuss what has taken place so far and to try to gauge what the future might hold.
Khalid Abdalla: I’m convinced that revolution stage two will come
British-Egyptian actor and producer Khalid Abdalla flew from London to Egypt soon after it became clear that the protests of 25 January were gathering momentum and was there for the Friday ‘Day of anger’ on 28 January. The Kite Runner star, whose other credits include Green Zone and In the Last Days of the City, […]
What’s on at the Frontline Club – a look at the week ahead
On Thursday we have a fantastic opportunity to engage with some of the key voices in the Egyptian Revolution. A special event in association with BBC Arabic Service at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, this is an unmissable opportunity to hear Omar Robert Hamilton, Manal Hassan, Khalid Abdalla, Salma Said and others reflect on the […]
Omar Robert Hamilton: ‘the biggest challenge now is keeping the momentum up’
Egyptian/British film-maker Omar Robert Hamilton, who can be seen in the above video speaking at a Democracy Now! event with his mother Ahdaf Soueif was in Washington DC on 25 January when Egyptians took to the streets but after four days he flew to Cairo to take part in, and document, the Revolution. For […]
Salma Said: “I witnessed a war and survived it”
Salma Said, blogger will be taking part in our event this coming Thursday Protest, technology and the end of fear. Born in 1985 in Cairo, to a political family she has been involved in political activism since the age of 15 and joined the Kefaya (Enough) movement in 2005 when she discovered the Egyptian blogosphere. Here she […]
Protest, technology and the end of fear: the week ahead at the Frontline Club
This week there is an opportunity to hear from some of the key figures in the movement that swept President Hosni Mubarak out of office. On Wednesday the author and cultural commentator Ahdaf Soueif will be in conversation with the BBC’s Mishal Husain, looking back at the 18 days in Tahrir Square, the spirit of […]
Five years since the first tweet: a Twitter revolution in breaking news
Today, Twitter is celebrating its birthday. Five years after the first tweet was published, its impact on the field of Internet communication and many others beyond has been much debated. Recent events in Tunisia and Egypt re-ignited the debate over Twitter’s role in the political process and whether the world has seen its first Twitter […]
First Wednesday: Libya – what does the future hold?
By SHYAMALIE SATKUNANANDAN The end of Muammar Gaddafi’s rule in Libya is in sight – this was the consensus at the Frontline Club’s March First Wednesday, which focused on the situation in Libya. As Norman Benotman, a senior analyst at Quilliam, said: The question is a matter of when – we need to think about […]
The age of “the inexpert” and the unexpected?
Two blogs in the past seven days from different perspectives on the upheaval in the Middle East, raising the question of whether we are in uncharted territory or if the Western media in particular has been talking to the wrong people: In a post titled Middle East uprisings: no one predicted ‘rebellious cascade‘ Channel 4 […]
The week ahead at the Frontline Club: First Wednesday and a special screening of Blood and Dust
Tomorrow evening’s First Wednesday is fully booked but the discussion will be broadcast live here from 7pm. On Sunday we have a special screening of Frontline Club founder Vaughan Smith’s new film on Afghanistan Blood and Dust. Sunday lunch will be served in the Club room at 12pm and 2pm and tickets are available for […]
Political tumult in the Middle East and North Africa – Frontline Club events in February
With so much going on in the Middle East and North Africa it’s unsurprising that our two events in February focusing on the region sold out. Our First Wednesday event on 2 February was announced as a discussion on The Tunisian domino effect and the Middle East but one week after we announced it the […]
Where does Yemen sit in the Middle East domino theory?
With the winds of change blowing across the Middle East, people are busy combing the region for their next favorite to fall. After the resignation of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt nearly two weeks ago, most of the world’s attention has shifted to Libya and Bahrain where tens of thousands are calling for change and violent […]
Social media, protest and changing the world order – Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky‘s article in Foreign Affairs magazine discussing the political impact of social media focuses on its long term potential for changing public anc civil life as well as for toppling governments. In the interview above with the Wall Street Journal Clay Shirky, who is Professor of New Media at New York University, Clay Shirky […]
Reporting from the frontline: what does the attack on Lara Logan tell us?
Channel 4 News‘ international editor Lindsey Hilsum, who took part in last week’s First Wednesday special on Egypt wrote a piece at the weekend about the dangers journalists face following the sexual assault of Lara Logan in Cairo on the night President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. Lindsey Hilsum, who herself came under attack while reporting […]
Accurate reporting ‘difficult’ as foreign journalists banned from Libya
In a post on the BBC’s Editor’s blog world news editor Jon Wiliams wrote yesterday about the difficulties news organisations face reporting the uprisings in Libya. The BBC and other news organisations are relying on those on the ground to tell us what’s happening. Their phone accounts – often accompanied by the sound or gunfire […]
