Lecture on Arab Spring: Dr. Gilbert Achcar, University of London @ UTSA Downtown

Professor Gilbert Achcar is one of the world’s leading experts on conflict in the Middle East. Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London – he specializes in non-religious Arab-Arab disputes. There has been little journalistic coverage of the economic and secular political issues that are the fundamental cause of a great deal of Middle Eastern violence.  He has written eleven books and over a hundred articles on the Middle East. His book The People Want (University of California Press) is an important reinterpretation of the events of Arab Spring that goes beyond the standard clichés to link popular protest to frustrating political blocks on normal processes of economic development.  RSVP to copp@utsa.edu or call (210) 458-3213.