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Professor Maati Monjib has become the face of Morocco’s war on freedom of expression

Opinion: Morocco’s war on free speech is costing its universities dearly

09 Dec 2015

Shana Cohen (Department of Sociology) discusses censorship and free speech in Morocco.

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Manchester protest (27 September 2014)

Opinion: How free are we really?

30 Oct 2015

Priyamvada Gopal (Faculty of English) discusses freedom as a practice rather than a value to be worshipped.

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Censorship war

Censorship versus freedom of expression

17 Sep 2015

In a series of provocative debates at this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas (19 October – 1 November), censorship and freedom of expression will be...

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Civic education in progress

Fallacies of Freedom Talk in Africa

01 Oct 2006

Talk of hard-won freedom can be a threat to the very freedoms being celebrated. Harri Englund, a University Lecturer in the Department of Social...

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