Description:

This lecture will investigate how Egyptians, Moroccans, and Tunisians used social media both as a tool of mobilization and surveillance before and after the “Arab Spring” uprisings of 2011.

Driss Ksikes is a Morrocan artist, playwright, novelist, journalist, and human rights advocate. He is currently a professor of media and culture at the Institut des hautes études de management (HEM) in Rabat, and directs their research center, and has published a number of plays, novels, and academic essays on Moroccan cultural life.

Ksikes' visit to Northwestern is a collaboration of MENA, the Center for the Writing Arts, the Theater Department, and the Buffett Institute French and the Global Humanities Working Group.