Dr H A Hellyer
Director, Visionary Consultants Group, Fellow, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick
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The Arab Spring turning into the Arab Summer: Seasonal Challenges in Egypt
08 July 2011, 10:30-12pm
IISS-Asia Meeting Room, 9 Raffles Place, #53-02 Republic Plaza I,
Singapore 048619
In 2011, the Tunisian and Egyptian presidents resigned from their offices in the face of wide-scale public protests which caused a cascade set of events. The chain reaction throughout the Middle East could be felt throughout, with Libyans trying to force Gaddafi from power, and mass protests in Bahrain, Syria and Yemen. As the Arab Spring turns into the Arab Summer, however, there are huge challenges facing these countries – not least of which are Tunisia and Egypt, whose peoples are going to the polls in the coming weeks for the first time since the uprisings. What are those challenges? What are we likely to see arise as a result of the overthrow of these regime, and what are the risks in the days ahead?
Dr H.A. Hellyer is Director of the global policy consortium, the Visionary Consultants Group, and Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick (UK). Formerly Fellow of Centre for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution (USA), Dr Hellyer is a United Nations ‘Global Expert’ on the politics of the MENA region, political Islamism & security. An advisor to different UK and US government departments, he has been based out of Cairo since late last year and is currently writing two books on Western security policy, and the Arab Spring. He has written for the Washington Post (USA), the National (UAE) and al-Masry al-Youm (Egypt).
