Status: Completed.

Spaces of Liberation is a research collaboration initiative that involves research centres and institutions from Europe, North America and the Middle East and aims to study, investigate and analyse the changing socio-spatial practices and dynamics of urban squares in the contemporary city in light of the extensive revolts and protests that not only emerged in the Arab cities of Cairo, Tunis and Sana’a and Damascus during the Arab Spring but also appeared in Madrid, Athens, and Rome in addition to the riots in England over the summer of 2011, and Anti-nuclear Protests in Tokyo. The Project team includes Professor Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem and Dr. Gehan Selim from Queen’s University Belfast.