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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T163000
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SUMMARY:The Arab Spring Fifteen Years On | Crown Center Spring Kick Off Eve
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DESCRIPTION:The Arab Spring Fifteen Years On\nThe Crown Center's Spring Kic
 koff Event\n&nbsp\;\n\nThursday\, January 15\, 2026\n4:30-6PM\n\nOnline an
 d In Person (Register for virtual attendance)\nRapaporte Treasure Hall\n\
 nMiddle Eastern food and refreshments will be served.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nWhen 2
 6-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi self-immolated in response to the confiscation
  of his produce cart in Tunisia\, no one saw how his death would give rise
  to waves of popular uprisings throughout the Middle East and North Africa
 . Fifteen years later\, the ripples from the Arab Spring continue to move 
 across the region. The Crown Center is excited to kick off the 2026 spring
  semester by bringing together a stellar panel of experts on Tunisia\, Egy
 pt\, Syria\, Sudan\, and Yemen to revisit and reassess this pivotal period
 . The panel will move beyond the question of success or failure to explore
  how the Arab Spring reshaped relations between states and societies\, cre
 ated and foreclosed possibilities for political participation and coalitio
 n building\, and shaped the region into what it is today.\n\n\nPanelists\n
 \nNader Andrawos is a junior research fellow at the Crown Center.\n\nEva 
 Bellin is the Myra and Robert Kraft Professor of Arab Politics at the Cro
 wn Center and the department of politics at Brandeis University.\n\nYasser
  Munif is an associate professor in sociology at Emerson College.\n\nAnna
  Simone Reumert is the Neubauer Junior Research Fellow at the Crown Cente
 r.\n\n\nModerator\n\nStacey Philbrick Yadav is professor and chair of the
  international relations department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges a
 nd a non-resident fellow at the Crown Center.
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