[WSMDiscuss] (Fwd) Webinar 16 April: Syria, Libya, Yemen & Bahrain - Counterrevolution and Revolutionary Discontent

[Patrick Bond]

On 4/12/2021 10:08 AM, hamza hamouchene wrote:
> Dear Patrick,
> I'd appreciate it very much if you can share it in the e-lists you are 
> part of.
> Many thanks,
> Hamza
> ou
>
>
>     Webinar 16 April: Counterrevolution and Revolutionary discontent:
>     Syria, Libya, Yemen & Bahrain
>
> <https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=SLitHD&mc=Ci&s=auVV22&u=Stcs4&z=EMy69V8&>
>
>     ✨The things you always wanted to ask about Syria but were afraid to.
>
>     ✨ Four key things you aren't being told about Yemen.
>
>     ✨ What you wanted to discuss about Libya but were too depressed to
>     even begin.
>
>     ✨ What were the popular demands in Bahrain that were crushed
>     before one could pronounce the word revol---
>
> Indeed, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Bahrain have all been key parts of the 
> Arab revolutions. But a decade on, these events have almost completely 
> faded from that framework. The Arab uprisings were celebrated as 
> world-changing events, but these incredible efforts against 
> authoritarianism also morphed into divisive violence. Many attempts to 
> resist socio-economic exploitation were met with resistance from the 
> state, often in conjunction with global capital and foreign 
> interference. The brutal descent into civil wars in Syria, Libya and 
> Yemen and a succession of crackdowns in Gulf countries like Bahrain, 
> shows the cynical proxy-logic so reminiscent of the colonial schemes 
> this region is all too familiar with.
>
> In the background of these dynamics, the inspiring demands "bread, 
> freedom, justice and dignity" were not enough to push against the 
> waves of counter-revolutions. But why, how, when, and who?
>
> In this second webinar in our “Arab Uprisings: A Decade of Struggles” 
> Series, we will discuss all these issues with four brilliant guests 
> where we re-visit these key examples to help us understand how 
> revolutionary processes are imbued with ups and downs, with gains and 
> setbacks.
>
> Friday 16 April 17:00 CET
>
> Register here 
> <https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=SLitHD&mc=Ci&s=auVV22&u=Stcs4&z=EF79MEC&> 
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>
>
> /*Webinar in English with translation into Arabic*/
>
>
>       Panellists
>
>     ⚡️*Yasser Munif* is a Syrian Sociology Associate Professor in the
>     institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College. Author of the '/The
>     Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the
>     Geopolitics of Death/')
>
>     ⚡️*Ala’a Shehabi* is a Bahraini activist scholar. Deputy Director
>     of the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College
>     London (UCL). Co-editor of ‘/Bahrain's Uprising: Resistance and
>     Repression in The Gulf/’.
>
>     ⚡️*Lucia Pradella* is a Senior Lecturer in International Political
>     Economy at King’s College London. She works on capitalism, border
>     imperialism in Libya and the disciplining of labour across the
>     Mediterranean.
>
>     ⚡️*Helen Lackner* has worked in all parts of Yemen since the 1970s
>     and lived there for close to 15 years. She is the author of
>     '/Yemen in Crisis, the road to war/' (Verso, 2019).
>
>
> /This event is hosted by the Transnational Institute and 
> Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung - North Africa/
>
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