Podcast appearances and mentions of katherine zoepf

Journalist and author Katherine Zoepf joins the podcast to discuss social change in Saudi Arabia, and the country's lifting of a ban that prevented women from driving. Zoepf has done in-depth reporting throughout the Middle East for the New Yorker and other publications, specifically focusing on the experiences of women.

What happens when a revolution unravels? While motivations vary widely, revolutions are, at their core, a clash between old and new ideas. The Tahrir Square uprisings were no different. Nearly two-thirds of Egypt's 70 million citizens were under thirty years old and newly online, and it became harder for the regime to isolate the public from radical ideas. That influx of ideas—and the political sentiments that followed—created a new wave of turmoil for many young people torn between the ever-shifting balance of tradition and change in their own lives. In her new book, Generation Revolution, journalist Rachel Aspden offers a window into the Arab Spring through the millennials who experienced it firsthand. Following the stories of four young Egyptians—an atheist software engineer, a village girl in defiance of her community, a one-time religious extremist, and a would-be teenage martyr—the book reveals a growing generation in Egypt vastly different from preceding ones, struggling to find a place for various voices during the chaos of government upheaval. As misinformation about religious extremism and the refugee crisis accelerates, join New America NYC for a discussion on where the next generation will take the Middle East and how Americans can better understand the doubts, resentments, and hopes they carry into the future. PARTICIPANTS Rachel Aspden @rachelaspden Author, Generation Revolution: On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East   Sana Amanat @MiniB622 Director, Content & Character Development, Marvel Entertainment Moustafa Bayoumi @BayoumiMoustafa Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Author, How Does It Feel To Be A Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America Angie Gad @Angieslyst Egyptian-American writer Katherine Zoepf @katherinezoepf Fellow, Better Life Lab, New America Author, Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World

Last month Saudi woman cast their votes for the first time in municipal elections in Riyadh.  And while this is an incredibly positive development in the region, it also, by its very nature points out how limited many of these woman are and how the deeply conservative and gender segregated world of the Middle East has changed so little.When we look around the world at developing nations, we see that where there has been real progress, in Africa, in Latin America and in parts of Asia, women have played a vital, often central role in advocating and bringing about that progress. In the Middle East, where that ability has been so limited, we see the consequences on a daily basis. Katherine Zoepf in Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World gives us an inside view of how these woman are doing.My conversation with Katherine Zoepf: 

Katherine Zoepf worked as a stringer in many different arab countries, reporting the lives of women. She talks about how biases are generalizations, and that we can learn much more, just from asking questions. Katherine: https://twitter.com/katherinezoepf Kate Brooks: https://twitter.com/katebrooksphoto