SOL sharing collection | Interesting Videos, Documentaries, Debates and Podcasts*

[OdaySomali]

Let's use this thread for the sharing & collection of Interesting Videos, Documentaries, Debates and Podcasts*.

 

* Non somali/Somalia related videos, unless it is about development & developmental initiatives.

[OdaySomali]

London School of Economics: After the Arab Spring: power shift in the Middle East?

 

Speaker(s): Dr Amnon Aran, Roger Cohen, Professor Anoush Ehteshami

Chair: Dr Toby Dodge

 

Recorded on 1 May 2012 in Old Theatre, Old Building.

 

As the revolutions of 2011 become the politics of 2012, has power shifted in the Middle East, and has Iran been the main beneficiary? This event launches the new LSE IDEAS report After the Arab Spring: power shift in the Middle East.

 

Amnon Aran is a senior lecturer at the Department of International Politics, City University. Roger Cohen is a columnist for the International Herald Tribune and New York Times. Anoush Ehteshami is professor and joint director of the ESRC Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World, University of Durham.

 

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[OdaySomali]

London School of Economics - Public Lectures and Events: audio podcasts and videos

 

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[OdaySomali]

The Chinese Growth Model (video)

[Saxansaxo]

InshaAllah I'll look into them. Here are others.

 

Claude Alvares of India speaking about resistance to academic imperialism at the International Conference on Academic Imperialism held at Al-Zahra University in Tehran, Iran, on 1-2 May 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Planting African Memory: The Role of a Scholar in a Postcolonial World."

By Ngugi wa Thiong'o

 

 

[Buuxo]

Old but Gold doco "Color of fear" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xybDRr0kPRc&feature=player_embedded

[Jacaylbaro]

Congo's conflict minerals leave a trail of destruction as they make their way from the mines in eastern Congo to the mobile phone in your pocket. How does the process work? What is the human cost? What can consumers do to help end the violence being fueled by Congo's illicit mineral trade? Enough's John Prendergast breaks it all down.

 

 

[OdaySomali]

"External Actors in Stateless Somalia A War Economy and its Promoters."

 

^ Interesting article.

[Maarodi]

There's an upcoming documentary titled Through the Fire: Rebuilding Somalia and another one titled, No Problem: A Somali Message to the American People

 

Has there ever been a documentary post 1990 written and directed by Somalis?

 

 

I love this thread idea by the way!

[OdaySomali]

"Prosperity without growth - a new economic mindset "

 

A very interesting read about future sustainable economic growth, and consumpion as an engine of growth.

 

http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/data/files/publications/pwg_summary_eng.pdf

[Carafaat]

OdaySomali, that is indeed an interesting report. it has been drafted by the UK commission for Sustainable Development and they conclude that it is quite impossible to sustain the current economic growth model in a sustainable way. something economist denied for a long time.