Sunday, 27 January 2013

COLUMN: Cultural production and the Arab Spring by Claire Chambers postcolonial literature at Leeds Metropolitan University

The writer teaches postcolonial literature at Leeds Metropolitan University and is the author of British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers

WE are now approaching the third spring since the initial revolutions, but the Arab Spring of 2011 continues, with the civil war in Syria escalating, Mohamed Mursi taking ‘despotic’ powers in Egypt and fresh turbulence in Libya.

It is difficult to assess the rapidly unfolding territory of the Arab Spring. Ziauddin Sardar locates

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