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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150414T180000
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SUMMARY:The Tragedy of the Egyptian Revolution
DESCRIPTION:NEW YORK\n\nProf. Khaled Fahmy\nArcapita Visiting Professor\, C
 olumbia University\nAmerican University in Cairo\n\nInternational Affairs 
 Building\, Room 707\n\nApril 14\, 2015\n\n6:00pm\n\n“Bread. Freedom. Soc
 ial Justice. Human dignity”. This was the slogan that erupted in Tahrir 
 Square in January 2011 in what proved to be one of the largest episodes of
  the Arab Spring. More than four years later\, none of the lofty ideals th
 at this slogan had called for has been fulfilled. On the contrary\, the hu
 man rights situation in Egypt is worse today than it has ever been in livi
 ng memory. More Egyptians have been killed by security forces in the past 
 year than during Mubarak’s thirty years in power. Courts have been passi
 ng down death sentences by the hundreds in sessions that last no more than
  a few minutes. Hundreds of young activists are now behind bars. Many more
  have fled the country in self-imposed exiles.\n\nWhat caused this dramati
 c setback? How did the Arab Spring end up being a nightmare out of which E
 gypt\, the largest Arab country\, finds itself unable to awaken? Was the f
 ailure of the January 25 Revolution the result of the shortcomings of Tahr
 ir’s young activists? Were Egypt’s democratic revolutionaries truly de
 mocratic or did they fail the first test of democracy when they got a chan
 ce? Or is the rapid unraveling of the Arab state system the reason behind 
 the counter-revolution’s spectacular success?\n\nInformed by many years 
 of studying Egypt’s modern history and reflecting on his own personal ex
 perience in Tahrir\, Khaled Fahmy will be lecturing about the Tragedy of E
 gypt’s Revolution.\n\nSponsored by the Middle East Institute and the Ins
 titute for Religion\, Culture\, and Public Life (IRCPL).\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Academic Lecture
LOCATION:Columbia University\, 116th St &amp\; Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 1
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