Eight years ago, Tunisia’s dictator Ben Ali was overthrown in a popular revolution that set off a chain of new political realities and possibilities of transformation in the Arab world. Much of that elation and momentum was eventually submerged under the inferno of counter-revolutions, crackdowns, wars, terrorism, coups, and regional restlessness. Only the original protagonist, Tunisia, considerably weathered the storm. However, rather than simply “moving on”, the seminar explores the long arm of the momentous events in how they shape the present spectrum: from the growing violent methods of paranoid regimes that sees a journalist like Jamal Khashoggi murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, to the Arab public’s heterogeneous ways of countering repression by, for example, adopting Egyptian footballer Mohamed Salah into the continuing, albeit increasingly weary, search for dignity.
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