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Show Notes
Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at the Oxford University and the author of The Arab Awakening: Islam and the New Middle East.
He discusses:
-- just how Islamic are the mass movements across the Middle East
-- why he refuses to refer to the uprisings as the 'Arab Spring'
-- that Western countries were involved in training the cyber-dissidents, while at the same point in time allies of the very same governments
-- if the uprisings caught him by surprise, as it did most of the world
-- howto reconcile the role of Islam, Islamists, Secularism and Politcs
-- the real socio-political change that needs to take place: in education, equality, women's rights, social justice
-- the Muslim Brotherhood and what kind of Islamist rulers will they be for Egypt
-- why he is not a member of the Brotherhood, which was founded by his grandfather
-- the way forward for the Arab world
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