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Revolutionary Spaces: Street, Square, Mosque, and the Role of Islam in the Arab Uprisings


By Sumaiya Hamdani

10/27/2011 08:00 am

Location: Research Hall, Room 161, George Mason University


 The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, Middle East Studies Program, and the Working Group on Displaced Population, present:

"Revolutionary Spaces: Street, Square, Mosque, and the Role of Islam in the Arab Uprisings"

by Sumaiya Hamdani

 

As part of the semester-long lecture series on the Arab uprisings, Sumaiya Hamdani, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History, discusses the ground-breaking developments in the Middle East taking a close look at the significance of public spaces that protest movements emerged from and Islam's role in this historic transformative period.