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The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies and the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs held a talk "Contentious Politics, Imaginative Border-Crossing, and the Arab Uprisings" by John Chalcraft

Many have spoken of the spread of protest across borders during the Arab
uprisings. But surprisingly little systematic attention has been paid by scholars to
the ways in which border crossing and transnationalism has played a productive
role in contentious politics in the Middle East and North Africa. This lecture
interrogates this question, drawing on examples going back to the eighteenth
century and on the fruits of a five-year research project.

JOHN CHALCRAFT is a Reader in the History and Politics of Empire/ Imperialism at
the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Previous posts
include a Lectureship at the University of Edinburgh and a Research Fellowship at
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. His research focuses on history from
below in the Middle East. He is the author of "The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and
Other Stories: Crafts and Guilds in Egypt, 1863-1914" (State University of New
York Press, 2004) and "The Invisible Cage: Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon"
(Stanford University Press, 2009). He is currently writing a book on transnational
popular politics and protest movements in the making of the modern Arab world,
focusing on how hegemony is made and unmade 'from below'.