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The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East

The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East
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During the Arab uprisings of 2011, onlookers celebrated the democratizing effects of digital technology and social media. However, the rise of digital authoritarianism across the region now casts doubt on old narratives, showing how authoritarian regimes can wield technology to consolidate their power and clamp down on opposition. What many once saw as an equalizer appears to have become yet another tool of repression.
Please join MENA Forum for a panel on the rise of digital authoritarianism in the Middle East with Eliza Campbell, Mohammed Soliman, and Robert Uniacke, who are researchers focusing on technology and governance in the Middle East. The event will begin at 12:30pm on Friday, February 28 in ICC 108 and last until 2:00pm.
Lunch will be provided.
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Learn more about our speakers below:
Eliza Campbell is the Co-Director of the Cybersecurity Initiative at the Middle East Institute, and a researcher in technology and human rights at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. She was a 2017-18 Fulbright researcher in Bulgaria, and previously worked in the human rights sector in Jordan. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science and Arabic.
Mohammed Soliman is a Non-Resident Scholar with the Middle East Institute. His work focuses on the intersection of technology, geopolitics, and business in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). A native of Cairo, Egypt, Mohammed appears frequently on Arabic-language television to provide commentary on unfolding events in the Middle East and has published articles for Foreign Affairs, Daily News Egypt, the Middle East Institute, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Open Democracy. Previously, he worked as an analyst and columnist for Tahrir News, al-Maqal, and al-Masry al-Youm in Egypt. @Soliman91
Robert Uniacke is a Researcher at Navanti Group and Master's candidate at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. For Navanti, his work monitors the social media space in Libya and Tunisia, specifically analyzing the online messaging of Libya's militias, political actors, violent extremist organizations, and international actors such as the UAE. His academic work has focussed on authoritarianism, propaganda and disinformation with geographic focuses on the Gulf and Libya. His essay entitled "Authoritarianism in the information age: state branding, depoliticizing and 'de-civilizing' of online civil society in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates" is due to be published in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.

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