Lindsey Hilsum
Berlin 1989 – the miracle that blinded us to the truth about revolution
My generation was blinded by the fall of the Berlin Wall. Bloodless revolutions are few and far between.
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Comedian Bassem Youssef on the Israel-Gaza war, the Arab Spring, and why we can’t change the world
Comedian Bassem Youssef talks about his view that Israel should be held accountable for the war in Gaza, how the Egyptian revolution was a turning point in his life, and why he feels disillusioned with the West’s “lecturing” on human rights and international law, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
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Tunisian football’s problem with fan violence and rioting
England will be playing their first match on Monday against Tunisia. The two teams met exactly 20 years ago, in a game overshadowed by rioting England fans. But today, it’s the Tunisians who have a problem with fan violence. The authorities are struggling to deal with clashes at stadiums, sparked by a young population frustrated…
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Lindsey Hilsum
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Lindsey Hilsum
The saviour who won’t rise from the streets
“Waste your summer praying in vain, For a saviour to rise from these streets” – what Bruce Springsteen can teach us about Egypt and the Arab Spring.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Egypt: a coup or the birth-pangs of true democracy?
Egypt ousts its first democratically elected president – but was it a coup or a revolution, and where did ex-President Morsi, now in military custody, go wrong?
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The final hours in Cairo 2.0
The whole nation is on tenterhooks again – the next few hours crucial.
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Matt Frei
America struggles with the new global realities
The situation is tragic, messy, ironic and dangerous. And everyone is fumbling to find the right response to the killing of the US Ambassador to Libya.
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Egypt's unlikely bedfellows: the Islamists and the military
“In Tahrir Square itself the grass has died, and much youthful optimism with it.”
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Why thuggery cuts both ways in Egypt
If it wasn’t for a hard core of violent youths, many of them football fans, manning the barricades and taking on the police a year ago, would Egypt’s revolution have gone as far as it has?
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Mohamed Bouazizi changed the world in 2011
As Channel 4 News asks you who you think changed the world the most in 2011, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman makes the case for a young fruit and vegetable seller from Tunisia.