Laila Hussein Laila Hussein comes to the University of Illinois Library after working as a cataloger and Reference Librarian at New York University. Prior to that, she was a human rights activist in Egypt , and worked in the United States with Landmine Survivor Networks, International Torture Survivors, and did outreach to the HIV positive community in New […]
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The Spring Since 2010: Conflicts, Demonstrations, and Civil Wars in Arab World
Often taking as an allegory to the “Springtime of the People” or the Prague Spring in 1968, the term “Arab Spring” was “unintentionally coined in a January 6, 2011 article” by Marc Lynch. From the end of 2010 to the present, the calls for revolution from the Arab world only grew stronger. Demonstrations, protests, and […]
Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
Friday September 30th was the 2012 Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, also known as the Mooncake Festival, which is a holiday celebrated in Chinese and Vietnamese culture. The IAS had our own Mooncake festival celebration on Monday Oct 1st. The tradition of eating mooncakes during this festival allegedly began with a “14th-century uprising against the Mongols, when […]