This month in diplomacy | April/May 2021
ISD’s new podcast mini-series, Diplomacy and the Arab Spring at 10
This month, we wanted to highlight a new podcast mini-series from the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy on the origins and legacies of the 2011 Arab uprisings. The series features conversations between U.S. ambassadors, activists, scholars, and thinkers who experienced events first hand.
The series explores revolutions in five countries — Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria — through the eyes of their respective U.S. ambassadors during the Arab Spring.
Conversations with scholars, practitioners and next generation thinkers from the region — including Georgetown School of Foreign Service alumni — guide listeners through the origins, events, and aftermath of the Arab Spring. The podcast provides new insights into the study of the Arab uprisings and their ongoing histories and unfolding legacies, as experienced by participants in the events themselves.
The first episode, “The Tunisian People Have Spoken,” explores the early days of the Jasmine Revolution, as told through the experiences of ISD Non-Resident Fellow Ambassador Gordon Gray and Columbia Global Centers Tunis political analyst Youssef Cherif.
Episode 2, “Tahrir Square and Beyond,” examines how protests erupted across Egypt in 2011 and features eye-witness accounts from Ambassador Anne Patterson and Egyptian analyst Mohammed Soliman, who was a student protester during the country’s revolution.
Episode 3, “Revolution, Transition, and Collapse in Yemen,” looks at the shift from dictatorship, to hope, to disaster over the last decade in Yemen, which many now describe as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The conversation features Ambassador Jerry Feierstein and Yemeni scholar Ibrahim Jalal.
Each story of revolution features context and commentary from ISD’s Kelly McFarland, Tamara Cofman Wittes from the Brookings Institution, and Rita Stephan of North Carolina State University and USAID.
Further episodes on Libya and Syria, plus a bonus episode with former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Libya Stephanie Williams, will be released every Wednesday for the rest of May.
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