Instead of mimicking ex-colonial powers, the event can help decolonise biased thinking about Arab and Muslim cultures.
Larbi Sadiki
Larbi Sadiki is a professor and a senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He is editor of the Routledge Series (UK): the Routledge... Studies of Middle Eastern Democratization and Government. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Brill Journal, PROTEST.
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