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SUMMARY:Cyberdissidence in the Middle East - Mehri Honarbin-Holliday (Cant
 erbury Christchurch University)\, Masih Alinejad (Iranian blogger and acti
 vist)\, Miriyam Aouragh (University of Oxford)\, Anne Alexander (Universit
 y of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Ignacio Sanchez
DESCRIPTION:Cyberdissidence in the Middle East\n\nThursday\, 21 October 20
 10\n\n19:00 - 21:00\n\nLocation: CRASSH\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge\n\n  \n
 \nThe use of digital and online technologies by dissidents across the Midd
 le East to articulate views excluded by government controlled-media\, and 
 to mobilise protests against repressive states has gathered pace in recent
  years. Western media and governments have celebrated the power of social 
 media as a means to advance democracy by opening space for political debat
 e and connecting activists.\n\nOur panellists will look critically at this
  assumption\, drawing on the experiences of Palestinian\, Iranian and Egyp
 tian digital activism.\n\nThis is a Cambridge Festival of Ideas event\, op
 en to all\, free of charge. Questions and debate on the issues raised will
  be encouraged. If you would like to attend\, please email Ankita Sahay (a
 s2141@cam.ac.uk) to register.\n\n Speakers\n\nMehri Honarbin-Holliday (Can
 terbury Christchurch University and author of Becoming Visible in Iran: Wo
 men in Contemporary Iranian Society)\n\nMasih Alinejad (Iranian blogger an
 d activist)\n\nMiriyam Aouragh (Oxford Internet Institute\, University of 
 Oxford) Podcast/Skype presentation\n\nAnne Alexander (CRASSH\, University 
 of Cambridge)
LOCATION:CRASSH\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge
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