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Turmoil and Tyranny

Understanding global change and challenges

Marcel Dirsus (photo credit Liza Holiarchuk)
Peter Greste
Avani Dias
Friday 23 May 2025
7-8pm
Event Code: 86
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Wars, coups and economic and climate crises: each new headline can make it feel like the world is suddenly falling apart.

But behind many dramatic world events are long-term historical patterns and the rise (and sometimes the fall) of tyrannical and authoritarian rulers. From the Arab Spring to the fall of dictators like Syria’s Assad, find out more about telling these stories from the inside with award-winning foreign correspondent Peter Greste (The Correspondent) and political scientist and author Marcel Dirsus (How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive). In conversation with Avani Dias.

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