The clash of civilizations is a big lie: Moustafa Riad at TEDxCairo

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Moustafa Riad is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ain Shams University and Chair of the General Egyptian Book Organization.

In his deeply insightful and cross-disciplinary talk, Moustafa Riad critiques Samuel Huntington's infamous theory of the Clash of Civilizations using the inter-cultural nature of Cairo's urban architecture as proof.

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