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Alaa al Aswani: 'Literature doesn't change politics, it changes people'

On this day, 18 December, ten years ago, the Arab Spring began. The death of Tunisian street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi a day earlier, on 17 December 2010, fanned the flames, and people all over the region began to turn against the political regime. What has changed since then?

Four years ago, at the Winternachten Festival in The Hague, we talked about it with Egyptian writer Alaa al Aswani, who despite being barely able to pub...

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On this day, 18 December, ten years ago, the Arab Spring began. The death of Tunisian street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi a day earlier, on 17 December 2010, fanned the flames, and people all over the region began to turn against the political regime. What has changed since then?

Four years ago, at the Winternachten Festival in The Hague, we talked about it with Egyptian writer Alaa al Aswani, who despite being barely able to pub...

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