PEN American Center hosted a Panel on April 27, 2011 at the Kaufmann Concert Hall in New York, NY. The speakers of the Panel Moroccan Abdellah Taia, writer The Arabist blogger Issandr El Amrani, writer Moroccan-Dutch Adbelkader Benali, Tweets of Takir editor Alex Nunns and Miral author and journalist Rula Jebreal. Jacob Weisberg served as moderator for the Panel.
The expert group explored the great political changes in the Arab world. Experts and on the ground bloggers weighed to discuss how social media and citizen journalism apparently galvanized revolutions.
Questions addressed by the Panel included - in the world, the Internet borders where revolutionary ideas propagate at the speed of lightning, will be another regimes despotic collapse? Those who? And how a transition to a democracy and what price autocracy?
The Group of experts was used in annual world Voices Festival of International Literature of the PEN American Center. He has explored the political turmoil in the Arab world in recent months, and how the Internet and social media were timely in the change of regime.
Video: Abdelkader Benali, Abdellah Taia, Rula Jebreal, Alex Nunns and Issandr El Amrani; moderated by Jacob Weisberg
On PEN
PEN American Center is the branch of the more ancient literary U.S. international and of the world human rights organization. PEN International was founded in 1921 in direct response to national and ethnic divisions that have contributed to the first world war. PEN American Center was founded in 1922 and is the largest PEN 144 centres in 101 countries that make up set of PEN International. Today, PEN American Center is composed of 3 400 members of professionals who represent the most distinguished writers, translators and editors of the United States.
On Rula Jebreal
RULA Jebreal is an award-winning journalist Palestinian, Talk Show host and author. Born in 1973 in Haifa, Israel, she spent her childhood in East Jerusalem, with his family. After receiving a degree in medicine from the University of Bologna, she decides to return to school to study journalism. Since then, she has worked for a number of Italian newspapers, which specializes in Islamic fundamentalism and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
In 2000, Jebreal became the first foreign presenter in Italy to broadcast the evening national television news. She has written three books. Divietto di Soggiorno, Sposa di Aswan and more recently Miral, who has been transformed into a large film directed by Julian Schnabel.
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