January 18, 2016
"We need to historicize this phenomenon in order to understand it," explained Omar Al-Ghazzi, lecturer at the University of Sheffield's Journalism Department in his lecture "From the Arab Spring to ISIS: On the Mediation of History in Arab Politics" held on January 14. The phenomenon that he was talking about is the events that have come to be known as "the Arab Spring" – events that were, according to Al-Ghazzi, unique in part because of the way they were communicated.
Read the full article on the Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) website here.