The Fire These Times

96/ The Arab Spring Diaspora Against Transnational Repression w/ Dana Moss

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This is a conversation with Dana Moss, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame and the author of the book "The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes."

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Topics Discussed:

  • How Yemeni, Libyan and Syrian diasporas in the US and UK reacted to the Arab Spring
  • Risks of protesting in the diaspora
  • Government responses to diaspora pressures and activism
  • Personal insights from my own experience
  • Why diasporas are still undervalued
  • Impostor's syndrome and survivor's guilt
  • Diasporas are not homogeneous
  • The Interpol problem
  • Legacy of the Arab Spring

    • Recommended Books:

    • Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Leila Al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab
    • We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman
    • The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
    • The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority by Sean R. Roberts
    • Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia by Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw
      • ...more
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