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Seminar

Opposition Media in Authoritarian Arab Countries

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A webinar with Eoghan Stafford, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative and PhD in Political Science from the University of California Los Angeles.

Moderated by MEI Faculty Chair, Professor Tarek Masoud.

This seminar will be conducted via Zoom Webinar. Please register in advance:

https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qAIgqEqxQxu-fLhKRnMV-Q

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

This event will also be live streamed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HKSmiddleeast/. To participate in the Q&A portion of the event, you must be registered on Zoom using the link above.

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Tunisian Interior Minister Hedi Mehnni, holding the Popular Unity Party's candidates list, right, and the Progressive Democratic Party's list, both yellow, answers reporters about a possible confusion between the lists during a press conference in Tunis, Monday Oct. 25, 2004. Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali i won re-election by an overwhelming margin in balloting marred by a boycott by an opposition party which called the vote a sham.

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Why do dictators sometimes allow opposition groups to publish their own media and at other times forbid them from doing so? Stafford argues that when dictators allow opposition media, it is to signal the ability of their regimes to withstand protest. Presenting evidence from a case study of Tunisia and original data from across the Middle East and North Africa, he shows that non-democratic governments are most likely to allow opposition media when domestic and international factors favor regime stability.

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