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| Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:07PM | | | | Revolutionaries in the Arab World | Tags: Abdelkader Benali, Rula Jebreal, Abdellah Taia, Alex Nunns, Issandr El Amrani, Jacob Weisberg, 92Y, Revolution, Arab World
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The optimism and energy of Wednesday night's "Revolutionaries in the Arab World" panel was contagious. The panelists included Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, Dutch-Moroccan writer Abdelkader Benali, The Arabist founder Issandr El Amrani, Moroccan writer Abdellah Taia, and Alex Nunns, who recently published a book called Tweets from Tahrir. I'm not sure if they were friends before, but I got the sense that they had all become friends--the kind of friendship that happens after a long, difficult journey.
Among the anecdotes shared, all shocking and poignant--
Jebreal recalled her first interview with Qaddafi in 1991, when he compared himself to Saladin and quoted from his own "Green Book," a text where he confuses... | | | | | |
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