On January 28-30 the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Université de La Manouba in Tunis are organising an online international conference to reflect on the past ten years of revolutions and changes in the Arab world (in French and Arabic). In the opening session, Wiener-Anspach Fellow Ahmed Hamila will present a paper on transnational queer activism in Tunisia.
The complete programme can be downloaded on the website of the ULB. The links and codes to access the online conference will be posted on the Facebook page of the event. For more information: 1020mondearabe@gmail.com.
Ahmed, PhD in Political Science (ULB/Université de Montreal), is currently carrying out a research project entitled “The construction of a New Space of Collective Action: Mobilisations in favour of LGBT Refugees in the UK”, under the supervision of Dr Véronique Mottier (Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.)