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					Silencing 140 characters: free expression and the internet in the Gulf
				
A seminar run by the University of Oxford’s Middle East Centre and Free Speech Debate on Free Expression in the Gulf, with Maryam al-Khawaja (Gulf Centre for Human Rights), Toby Matthieson (St. Anthony’s College) and Nicholas McGeehan (Middle East Researcher, Human Rights Watch). Chaired by Timothy Garton Ash

					Ian McEwan on free speech and religion
				
The celebrated English novelist on Islam’s ‘totalitarian moment’ and why freedom of expression is not religion’s enemy but its protector.

					Has Innocence of Muslims ended the innocence of YouTube?
				
Join us to debate the role internet platforms like YouTube should play in setting free speech agendas in your country, your language and across the world. Online editor Brian Pellot kicks off the discussion. 

					How impartial was the the BBC’s coverage of the Arab Spring?
				
A new report from former UN director of communications Edward Mortimer says the BBC’s coverage of the Arab Spring uprisings was “reasonably impartial”.

					(Not) reporting homosexuality in the Middle East
				
Media in the Middle East do not report gay issues in the same way as they would other news. By Brian Pellot.

					Zur (fehlenden) Berichterstattung über Homosexualität im Nahen Osten
				
Im Nahen Osten berichten Medien über Homosexualität nicht in gleichem Maße wie über andere Themen. Von Brian Pellot

					A Saudi blogger’s “blasphemous” tweets
				
As of August 2012, Saudi Arabian writer Hamza Kashgari faced a trial for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad on Twitter, writes Brian Pellot. 

					Article 19: freedom of expression anchored in international law
				
Jeff Howard explains what it means for a state to be a party to the ICCPR and how individuals can issue complaints about violations of free speech to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
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