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Over the past half century, many brave, creative writers and artists from Egypt, Tunisia and Syria cleverly evaded censorship to tell the truth about political and social issues in their countries. I call them “Shamans of the Arab Spring”.
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Ismat, R. (2019). Introduction. In: Artists, Writers and The Arab Spring. Middle East Today. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02668-4_1
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