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A leading Arab world observer will deliver the lecture ‘The Arab Spring. What went wrong? Future scenarios’ at the UL

Who is against whom in the protracted civil war in Syria? How Islamists took control over the Arab Spring? Have Al-Qa'ida found a safe home in Libya and Syria? Should Europe be afraid of Islamic radicals at home? Has the West lost the War on terror? You will find the answers to these and other related questions in the lecture by Abdel Bari Atwan, the founder of several independent pan-Arab media, an Arab world’s authority, respected by the countries’ leaders and quoted by the world's largest media.

The lecture and the debates will take place at the Great Hall of the University of Latvia (Rīga, Raiņa bulvāris 19) on 27 March from 14:00 to 16:30. The representatives of the Latvian culture, history, politics, art, education, science, medicine and diplomacy are welcome to participate. Both the lecture and the debates will be held in English and broadcast live at www.lu.lv/tiesraide/1/ Abdel Bari Atwan has been the editor-in-chief of the London-based independent Arab newspaper Al Quds Al Arabi for 25 years. As of 2007, the paper has grown into one of the major pan-Arab dailies and is known for its strident nationalist and idealistic position. It has been banned and censored repeatedly in several Arab countries for their governments’ vocal criticisms. Abdel Bari Atwan has become a well-known Arab public figure and is a regular guest on the news discussion programme Dateline London on BBC World, as well as on Sky News, Al Jazeera English, CNN World, and on several Arabic-language networks. He has contributed numerous opinion editorials to a variety of English newspapers including The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, The Scottish Herald and others; he writes regularly for Gulf News and Turkish Star Gazette. Abdel Bari Atwan has also written several books, of which the latest are After Bin Laden: Al-Qa'ida, the Next Generation and A Country of Words: a Palestinian Journey from the Refugee Camp to the Front Page. The Abdel Bari Atwan visit to Latvia has been organized by the University of Latvia, the Latvian Institute and the Latvian Virotherapy Centre.

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