{"id":240,"date":"2014-01-12T18:02:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T18:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newarabdebates.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2015-11-10T05:49:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T05:49:30","slug":"new-arab-debates-to-probe-troubled-arab-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newarabdebates.com\/new-arab-debates-to-probe-troubled-arab-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"New Arab Debates to probe troubled Arab Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Arab Debates founder and chairman Tim Sebastian will moderate the English debate on January 12th. Egyptian TV presenter Mai El Sherbiny will present the Arabic debate a day later. Both debates will be held at the Tunis Grand Hotel at 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the upcoming debates, Tim Sebastian says: &#8220;The Arab Spring appeared to herald the arrival of fairer, more just societies and an end to dicatorship. Are those hopes still alive &#8211; or has the Arab Spring ended in civil war, sectarianism, increasing poverty and the misery of refugees? This is the question at the heart of the our debates in Tunis &#8211; and where better to ask it than in the birthplace of the Arab uprisings.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Arab Debates founder and chairman Tim Sebastian will moderate the English debate on January 12th. Egyptian TV presenter Mai El Sherbiny will present the Arabic debate a day later. Both debates will be held at the Tunis Grand Hotel at 7pm. Commenting on the upcoming debates, Tim Sebastian says: &#8220;The Arab Spring appeared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newarabdebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newarabdebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newarabdebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newarabdebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newarabdebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/newarabdebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newarabdebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newarabdebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newarabdebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newarabdebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}