UBC experts are available to comment on the historic popular revolts in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia and their implications for North Africa, the Middle East and beyond.
Hani Faris, Dept. of Political Science
President of U.S.-based Trans-Arab Research Institute
Cell: 604.970.4744
Email: hani.faris@ubc.ca
- Arab Politics
- Middle East and North Africa
Shuvaloy Majumdar, Visiting Scholar
Liu Institute for Global Issues
Cell: +1.403.608.4428
Email: shuvaloy.majumdar@ubc.ca
- Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA)
- The evolution of political Islam
- Uprisings, democracy promotion and counter-insurgencies
- Foreign and defence policy implications of uprisings
- The impacts of Arab-language media, social media and technology in developing nascent political organizations throughout BMENA
Arjun Chowdhury, Dept. of Political Science
Tel: 604.822.1480
Email: arjunc@interchange.ubc.ca
- Strategies dictators use to remain in power
- Foreign policy towards autocratic regimes
Thomas Davidoff, Sauder School of Business
Tel: 604.822.8325
Email: thomas.davidoff@sauder.ubc.ca
- Global economic impacts of conflict
Alfred Hermida, School of Journalism
Tel: 604.827.3540
Email: alfred.hermida@ubc.ca
- Watch Hermida’s 1995 BBC interview of Moammar Gadhafi: http://ht.ly/47jlb
- Covered Libya, Tunisia and Egypt for the BBC from 1991-95
- Role of social media, including Facebook and Twitter
Tyseer Aboulnasr
Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences
Tel: 604.822.6412
Email: dean@apsc.ubc.ca
- An Egyptian-Canadian perspective
- Role of women in uprising
- Implications of Egypt adopting democracy
- Why a grassroots uprising now?
Farid Laroussi, Dept. of French
Cell: 778.893.1405
Email: laroussi@interchange.ubc.ca
- North Africa
- The post-colonial condition
- The Islamic sphere
Michael Byers, Canadian Research Chair in International Law and Politics
Tel: 604.822.3049
Email: michael.byers@ubc.ca
- Middle East geopolitics, including energy
- Foreign policy implications for U.S. and Canada
Jeff Byrne, Dept. of History
Tel: 604.822.5194
Email: jeffrey.byrne@ubc.ca
- Middle East and North Africa
- U.S. foreign policy in those regions
- Revolutionary movements/insurgencies
Deborah Campbell
School of Journalism and Dept. of Creative Writing
Tel: 604.736.1434
Email: deborah@telus.net
- Grassroots nature of the protests
- Role of Al-Jazeera, Twitter and Facebook
- Implications for U.S., Israel and Middle East
- Differences/similarities to recent protests in Iran
- The Middle East’s history of external domination
Taylor Owen, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Research Director, Munk Debates
Email: taylor.owen@gmail.com
- Use of social media by protesters, media and U.S. State Dept
- Canada’s response to the uprising
- Implications for democracy promotion in the Middle East
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