From Brexit and Grexit to neo-Nazis in Germany, Syrian families making their way to refuge through Greece and the rise, and fall, of Donald Trump, revolt is all around us.

In his latest book, award-winning journalist Nadav Eyal illustrates how modern globalisation is unsustainable and that the current uprisings are no passing phenomenon. Revolt is the new status quo.

Daily Maverick Associate Editor Marianne Thamm will be in conversation with Nadav Eyal as they explore his view that the collapse of the current world order is not so much about the imbalance between technological advances and social progress as it is about a passion to upend and destroy power structures that have become hollow, corrupt, or simply unresponsive to urgent needs.

Event details

Date: Thursday 25 March 2021
Time: 12:00 SAST
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About the participants

Marianne Thamm has toiled as a journalist/writer/satirist/editor/columnist/author for over 30 years and currently holds the position of Assistant Editor at Daily Maverick, since 2014. She has published widely both locally and internationally. It was journalism that chose her and not the other way around. Marianne would have preferred plumbing or upholstering.

Nadav Eyal is one of Israel’s leading journalists and a winner of the Sokolov Prize, Israel’s most important journalism award. Eyal has been covering Middle Eastern and international politics in the last two decades for Israeli radio, newspapers and television. With over 300,000 followers on social networks, he has been repeatedly named one of the country’s most influential journalists.

​​​​​​​In 2016 he was widely credited for a series of short documentaries that explored the real possibility of a Trump victory. A winner of the British Chevening scholarship, he received a master’s degree in global politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and holds a LLB from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Eyal serves as the chairman for the Israeli Movement for Freedom of Information.

 

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