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<p class="event1texttitle"><font
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Inside Tahrir Square</font></p>
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<p><font size="-1">February 25, 2011 2:00p–3:30p</font></p>
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<p>Featured speaker: Iason Athanasiadis <br>
Moderating: Kristin Fabbe, Fotini Christia
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Fresh from Cairo, Iason Athanasiadis will share
about the 24 crucial hours spent inside Tahrir
Square on the Wednesday night/Thursday morning
when the Mubarak loyalists attacked and how it
turned the entire momentum from one of violent
repression to one of negotiations and concessions.
Athanasiadis is a Farsi-speaking journalist who
currently resides in Afghanistan. He studied
Arabic and Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford
and was a 2008 Nieman fellow at Harvard. He
studied for a Masters at the Iranian Foreign
Ministry's think-tank in Tehran and was imprisoned
in Tehran's Evin Prison on espionage charges
during the 2009 post-election unrest. Joining the
discussion will be Kristin Fabbe, PhD student, MIT
Department of Political Science and Fotini
Christia, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of
Political Science.</p>
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<p>lectures/conferences<br>
global/international</p>
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<p align="left"><b>Speaker:</b></p>
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<p>Iason Athanasiadis, Kristin Fabbe, Fotini
Christia</p>
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<p align="left"><b>Location:</b></p>
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<p>E40-496 Lucian Pye Conference Room</p>
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<p align="left"><b>Sponsored by:</b></p>
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<p>Center for International Studies</p>
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<p align="left"><b>Admission:</b></p>
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<p> Open to the public<br>
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