{"id":3855,"date":"2011-03-05T08:23:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T08:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/03\/05\/commonunity-science-and-the-arab-awakening\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T04:20:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:20:36","slug":"commonunity-science-and-the-arab-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/05\/commonunity-science-and-the-arab-awakening\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commonunity.tumblr.com\/post\/3649526732\">commonunity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>science and the arab awakening<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201d<span>In the last few months, the Middle East and North Africa have seen some of the most dramatic political changes since the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. Tunisian President\u00a0Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who had ruled with an iron fist for more than 20 years, was overthrown. Shortly after, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who had also been a brutal dictator for decades, stepped down in the wake of massive public protests. As of this writing, similar protests are taking place in Yemen, Oman, Morocco, Iran, Djibouti, Jordan and Libya (where government retaliation to the protests has been particularly brutal). \u00a0If you\u2019re a CNN junkie like I am, you\u2019ve read all about how these revolutions will affect human rights, international relations, oil prices, and the influence of terrorism in the region. There has been relatively little mainstream media focus on how science will be affected, however.\u201d \u00a0posted in<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernfriedscience.com\/?p=9668&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+SouthernFriedScience+(Southern+Fried+Science)\">southern fried science<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>commonunity: science and the arab awakening \u00a0\u201dIn the last few months, the Middle East and North Africa have seen some of the most dramatic political changes since the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. Tunisian President\u00a0Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who had ruled with an iron fist for more than 20 years, was overthrown. Shortly after, Egyptian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-10b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4573,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/01\/18\/resist-a-word-for-all-protests-by-hilath\/","url_meta":{"origin":3855,"position":0},"title":"RESIST \u2013 a word for\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"January 18, 2011","format":"gallery","excerpt":"RESIST \u2013 a word for all protests? 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