Journalist reflects on Arab Spring - NY

The politics surrounding the Arab Spring and the U.S. response were discussed at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute on April 10.

The NYU Center for Dialogues and Foreign Policy Association co-sponsored “The Aftermath of the ‘Arab Spring’: An Update.” The event featured a talk by foreign affairs journalist Charles Sennott, a co-founder and editor-at-large of the Boston-based GlobalPost.

Sennott’s lecture honed in on the most recent effects of the Arab Spring movements and focused on how the factors of militarism, American foreign policy and religion intertwine in Egypt’s attempt at democracy.

To provide an update on the Arab Spring, the Center invited Sennot because of his 25 years of journalistic experience and his specialization in post-9/11 Middle Eastern cultures. He has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the ground and most recently the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo last summer.

“It is very easy to feel cynical with what’s happening right now, particularly in Egypt,” Sennot said. “The thing that is hard to understand is where [the Egyptian developments] are going to go.”


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