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Dina Rezk from the University of Reading looks at politics and the role of humour as she profiles Bassem Youssef, 鈥渢he Jon Stewart of Egyptian satire鈥�. As protests reverberate around the world, she looks back at the Arab Spring and asks what we can learn from the popular culture that took off during that uprising and asks whether those freedoms remain.

You can hear her in a Free Thinking discussion about filming the Arab Spring /programmes/m0005sjw and in a discussion about Mocking Power past and present /programmes/m000dzww

You can find of Dina's research https://egyptrevolution2011.ac.uk/

New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by 麻豆约拍 Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics to turn their research into radio.

Producer: Robyn Read