This is a conversation with Dana Moss, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame and the author of the book “The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes.” This is episode 96 of The Fire These Times podcast.

Topics Discussed:

• How Yemeni, Libyan and Syrian diasporas in the US and UK reacted to the Arab Spring
• Risks of protesting in the diaspora
• Government responses to diaspora pressures and activism
• Personal insights from my own experience
• Why diasporas are still undervalued
• Impostor’s syndrome and survivor’s guilt
• Diasporas are not homogeneous
• The Interpol problem
• Legacy of the Arab Spring

Recommended Books:

• Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Leila Al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab
• We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman
• The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
• The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority by Sean R. Roberts
• Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia by Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw

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