On Monday 9th of November at 19 pm we will present the book “What is left of the Arab uprisings? Activists, and key changes. ” The book was published thanks to the collaboration of about 90 people who contributed in the crowdfunding that the coordinator of the publication, the journalist and activist David Parsley, started last May in Lánzanos.
Now the publication is a reality and is presented as a book of stories about Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, Jordan, Palestine and Turkey. In the words of the prologue Javier Martin, a journalist of EFE, “the Arab Spring has revealed that the current problems of social justice can not be solved with old formulas that dominated the politics of the past century, such as supporting dictatorships (Egypt) or unleash war (Libya). Moreover, the frustration created by the failure of these revolutions has accelerated radicalization processes (such as roots of the Islamic State) and shown how necessary and urgent it is to end the twentieth century. “
Understanding what happens from Rabat to Baghdad is, increasingly, a local issue of an interconnected world, as we see when we reach the consequences of conflicts. Without attention to local voices, their testimonies and an “equal co-activism” as is correct in pointing Santiago Alba Rico, we risk reinforcing undesirable choices: jihadists, dictators or military interventions. What is left of the Arab uprisings? It is a book that aims to track the changing in vision of 2011, when “for the first time the North looked at the South with some respect.” And it put the focus on activists from their successes and mistakes, to open up other points of views and draw some clues of a changing Arab world. Soon we will inform you with more details.
