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New Statesman

30/01/12

(Please note the change of date and details for this talk)

Following the success of their What Future Syria debate in November 2011, the Mosaic Rooms and the New Statesman magazine are once again teaming up on a series of events in 2012 starting with:

Wael Ghonim in conversation with Mehdi Hasan

30 January 2012, 7.15pm at The Mosaic Rooms

One year on from the start of the occupation of Tahrir Square, the “spokesman for a revolution” — activist, social entrepreneur, and former Google executive —Wael Ghonim, talks to the New Statesman’s Mehdi Hasan about the Egyptian revolution, what comes next, and how the power of the internet and social media is being harnessed as a tool for democratic change around the world. There will also be an opportunity for audience questions.

Tickets cost £15 each and can be purchased online here

Copies of Wael Ghonim’s new book Revolution 2.0 will also be available for purchase and signings.

Wael Ghonim was born in 1980 in Cairo, and lived in Saudi Arabia for most of his childhood until moving back to Egypt at the age of 13 . A prominent internet entrepreneur, by his mid-twenties Wael was a key member or founder of three of the Arab world’s most popular websites, and in 2008 he was hired by Google as Regional Product Manager for the Middle East and North Africa. A passionate and committed individual, Wael’s knowledge of technology and his dedication to the cause of democracy in Egypt came together in 2011 when he set up a Facebook page that facilitated the protests that would lead to the departure of Hosni Mubarak. Wael is married with two children.

Mehdi Hasan is the senior editor (politics) at the New Statesman and is a former news-and-current affairs editor at Channel 4. He is a regular guest on BBC1’sQuestion Time, and also appears on BBC News, Sky News, Al Jazeera English and LBC, where he is a guest presenter. He is the co-author of ED: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader (Biteback, 2011), the author of The Debt Delusion (Random House, 2011) and a contributor to the Guardian and the Times.

Watch a video of the event here

 

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