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The Missing Angle on the Arab Spring: The Soviet Era dissident’s tale
I met renowned Polish Jewish journalist, Konstanty Gebert, from Gazeta Wyborcza at an EU conference for Arab journalists last year. His family had mostly died in the Warsaw Ghetto, his mother survived to take up arms with the Communists and … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Spring, journalism, media, Poland, politics, publishing, Soviet era
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Fighting press unfreedom: Lessons from the Iron Curtain for the Arab Spring
The name “Arab Spring” suggested to Europeans and Americans that the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa shared much with those in the Sovet Bloc that ended more than 40 years of Communist rule. But do they? … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Spring, censorship, DDR, Egypt, EU, journalism, Poland, politics, Soviet era, Stasi
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