Long Reads: Gilbert Achcar on the Second Wave of Arab Uprisings
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🗓️ 23 April 2022
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Summary
Gilbert Achcar joins Long Reads for a conversation about the second wave of Arab uprisings—and the possibility of a third. Gilbert is professor of development studies at SOAS in London. The second edition of his book The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising has just been published.
Read a 2020 interview with Gilbert in Catalyst, "The Arab Spring, a Decade Later" here: https://catalyst-journal.com/2020/12/the-arab-spring-a-decade-later
And his 2019 article "The Sudanese Revolution Enters a New Phase" here: https://jacobinmag.com/2019/08/sudanese-revolution-fdfc-constitutional-agreement-signed
Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn. Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Long Reads is brought to you by our comrades at Haymarket Books. |
| 0:04.8 | One title from Haymarket that you might enjoy is Ku, a story of violence and resistance |
| 0:08.9 | in Bolivia by Linda Farthing and Thomas Becker. |
| 0:12.4 | The book offers an acclaim to the 2019 Ku against Aval Morales and its repressive aftermath |
| 0:17.4 | before the mass party returns to power. |
| 0:20.1 | Brazil's former president Lula has described Ku as a vital contribution to the struggles |
| 0:25.2 | of the peoples of the Americas. |
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| 0:32.5 | on orders over $25 or 20 pounds. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello, you're very welcome to Long Reads, a Jackamon podcast where we look in depth at |
| 0:41.9 | political topics and thinkers. |
| 0:44.2 | My name is Daniel Finne and the features editor here at Jackamon and I'll be presenting |
| 0:48.8 | the show. |
| 0:50.7 | After the great hopes of 2011, the Democratic uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East |
| 0:56.1 | appeared to have been snuffed out. |
| 0:58.4 | Then a second wave of protest engulfed some of the regimes that have been left untouched |
| 1:02.4 | in 2011. |
| 1:04.1 | This report on Algeria from France Vancat through in March 2019 tracked the burgeoning demonstrations |
| 1:10.6 | against the rule of Abdulaziz Bouteflika. |
| 1:13.7 | They wanted an election without Bouteflika, now they have Bouteflika without an election. |
| 1:20.6 | Celebrations over the president's decision not to seek a fifth term have quickly given |
| 1:24.6 | way to skepticism and anger among Algerians. |
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