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					Between Islamists and secularists: debating free speech in the Arab world
				
Sara Khorshid reports from a panel discussion that brought together former hate preachers, feminists and ordinary Arab youth to debate the limits of free speech in the new Middle East.

					How old-fashioned violence and repression thwarted the ‘Facebook revolution’ in Egypt
				
Max Gallien contrasts Tahrir Square in 2011 and 2016.

					Religion: Sample our intellectual buffet. Or make your own meal.
				
Timothy Garton Ash introduces a sample tour of the content on our site. 

					Imported repression in the Middle East
				
A leaked document in June 2014 from Egypt’s ministry of the interior invited tenders for cyber-surveillance technology to combat blasphemy, sarcasm and ‘lack of morality’ – the technology would likely come from the west.  Max Gallien reports. 

					Who is threatening free speech in post-revolutionary Tunisia?
				
Middle East specialist Rory McCarthy examines the role of Islamist movement Ennahdha in shaping, and constraining, freedom of speech in Tunisia after the Arab Spring. 

					Free speech and the gun in Libya
				
Libyan media are crippled by their Gaddafi legacy. Without new regulations and, above all, bravery to stand up to violent intimidation, freedom of speech remains a distant dream, writes Jerry Timmins.

					Why Rwanda and Libya need free speech – and media regulation
				
Jerry Timmins describes a new report on media in two post-conflict societies, and argues that countries like Britain should do more to support them.

					Two years on, is it still spring in Tunisia?
				
On 17 December 2010, Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to himself – and began the Arab spring. Despite Islamist pressures on free speech and women’s rights, Rory McCarthy sees continued cause for hope.

					Ahmed Mansoor on blogging his way into a UAE prison
				
One of the United Arab Emirate’s most prominent human rights activists, Ahmed Mansoor was imprisoned in 2011 for criticising the country’s leadership. Here he discusses the death threats, defamation campaigns and physical attacks he continues to face for speaking his mind. 

					What are the biggest debates concerning Islam and free speech?
				
FSD’s Katie Engelhart sat in on this Frontline Club debate to discuss controversy surrounding the YouTube video Innocence of Muslims. 

					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. 

					Why the Arab world needs community radio
				
Social media and satellite television played a crucial role in the Arab uprisings, but Daoud Kuttab argues community radio must be embraced to effect positive change in the region.

					Egypt’s one-way traffic in books
				
Historian Khaled Fahmy describes how historic Egyptian books are more easily found in Western than in Egyptian libraries – and how a scholarly history of the Middle East was recently banned from entering Egypt.

					Al-Azhar’s ‘Bill of Rights’
				
Following the Arab Spring, a venerable Islamic institution’s new Statement on Basic Freedoms suggests where sharia law may (and may not) be compatible with international conventions to guarantee free expression.

					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”.

					Is it time for a global conversation on free speech?
				
A panel of experts joins FSD Director Timothy Garton Ash at London’s Frontline Club to discuss some of the world’s most pressing free speech issues.

					Al-Jazeera and the rise of citizen journalism
				
Since the beginning of the Arab uprising, more than 70,000 videos have been uploaded to Al-Jazeera’s portal Sharek.

					Jillian York: Is hacktivism ethical?
				
The director of international freedom of expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation talks about the ethics and motivations of hacktivism.

					On Free Speech: The power of the web
				
This latest episode looks at the ethics of hacktivism, crowdsourcing in war zones and the right of Christians in the UK to wear the cross at work.

					Wadah Khanfar: Was Al-Jazeera partisan under his watch?
				
The former head of Al Jazeera denies allegations that the network was in any way partisan under his watch, a criticism frequently levelled at the broadcaster, which is funded by the emir of Qatar.

					Free speech at the heart of the Arab Spring – part two
				
In the second part of this panel discussion just off Tahrir Square in Cairo, a panel of bloggers, journalists and human rights experts ask what are – and what should be – the limits to freedom of expression in Egypt today.

					Free speech at the heart of the Arab Spring – part one
				
In this panel discussion just off Tahrir Square in Cairo, a panel of bloggers, journalists and human rights experts ask what are – and what should be – the limits to freedom of expression in Egypt today.

					Can Europe and the Middle East agree on the terms of freedom of expression?
				
A lecture by Timothy Garton Ash in Egypt at the AUC New Cairo.

					Khaled Fahmy: How the right to information can transform Egyptian politics
				
Khaled Fahmy, Professor and Chair of the History Department at the American University in Cairo, discusses robust civility and the role of the army for free speech in Egypt.

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