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DESCRIPTION:Middle Eastern Studies Program Presents: "Has the "Arab Spring"
  Failed to Bring Democracy and Women's Rights?" by Larbi TouafThis discuss
 ion will address the current political situation in the Arab world\, three
  years after the start of the uprisings. In particular\, Professor Touafwi
 ll be focusing on the major concerns of women’s rights and democracy advoc
 ates. Concerns include the alarming emergence of fundamentalist government
 s whose discourse on women and civil liberties appears to be regressive.La
 rbiTouafis an Associate Professor of English and former Chair of the Engli
 sh department at Mohammed I University Oujda\, Morocco. Dr. Touafwas fello
 w at the Maxwell School in 2011 and is now a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at
  SUNY Cortland.Friday\, October 4\, 201312:30 PM341 Eggers
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SUMMARY:Middle Eastern Studies Program Presents: Has the Arab Spring Failed
  to Bring Democracy and Women's Rights
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Middle Eastern Studies Program Presents: "Has 
 the "Arab Spring" Failed to Bring Democracy and Women's Rights?" by Larbi 
 Touaf<br><br>This discussion will address the current political situation 
 in the Arab world\, three years after the start of the uprisings. In parti
 cular\, Professor Touafwill be focusing on the major concerns of women’s r
 ights and democracy advocates. Concerns include the alarming emergence of 
 fundamentalist governments whose discourse on women and civil liberties ap
 pears to be regressive.<br><br>LarbiTouafis an Associate Professor of Engl
 ish and former Chair of the English department at Mohammed I University Ou
 jda\, Morocco. Dr. Touafwas fellow at the Maxwell School in 2011 and is no
 w a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at SUNY Cortland.<br><br>Friday\, October 4
 \, 2013<br>12:30 PM<br>341 Eggers<br><br>
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