Dutch National Radio interviews Ahmed Zidan

On September 18, 2011 VPRO's radio show "Foreign Desk" interviewed Ahmed Zidan and Tarek Osman who both played an important role in the Arab Spring. Ahmed Zidan,  Egyptian Blogger for Mideast Youth and participant at the Changing Face of Citizen Action, shares his thoughts on the anti-Israeli demonstration at the Israel embassy in Cairo on September 9. 

The Changing Face of Citizen Action

Politicians and policy makers have turned the spotlight on the citizen. In the Global North we find Obama’s ‘yes we can’. The UK is at the forefront of an apparent ‘big society’ revival in Europe. In the Global South, citizens face the challenge to enforce good governance and to complement responsive service delivery. And at the international level, citizens are expected to preserve precious public goods, in the absence of effective global policies.On 15 and 16 September a selected group of 4...