Youth Movements and Revolution in Egypt - A talk by Ragui Assaad February 1, 2011

Following the ouster of Tunisia's President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on January 14 after nearly a month of street protests, world attention has turned to Egypt where reformers from across the political spectrum have been calling for an end to almost three decades of rule by President Hosni Mubarak. Professor Ragui Assaad will speak to the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Minnesota community about the current situation and the recent history of dissent in Egypt followed by a question and answer session.

Ragui Assaad is a professor at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. His current research projects include studying the effects of economic reform on the Egyptian labor market, female labor supply in Egypt, and community development efforts among Cairo's informal waste collectors. Assaad has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the International Labor Organization, the Ford Foundation, and UNICEF. Assaad is a research fellow of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran, and Turkey.

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