{"id":34221,"date":"2012-01-04T13:40:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=34221"},"modified":"2012-01-04T13:40:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:40:01","slug":"umw-political-science-professor-to-discuss-arab-spring-on-public-radio-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2012\/01\/04\/umw-political-science-professor-to-discuss-arab-spring-on-public-radio-show\/","title":{"rendered":"UMW Political Science Professor Discusses &#8216;Arab Spring&#8217; on Public Radio Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Mary Washington Associate Professor of Political Science Ranjit Singh will reflect on his experience with Bahrain\u2019s royal family in relation to last year\u2019s uprising in the Middle East during an interview on the \u201cWith Good Reason\u201d public radio program beginning Saturday, January 7.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34231\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2012\/01\/04\/umw-political-science-professor-to-discuss-arab-spring-on-public-radio-show\/singh-ranjit10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34231\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"34231\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/singh-ranjit10\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Singh-Ranjit10-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1700,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;14&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D300&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1285156642&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;90&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Singh, Ranjit10\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Ranjit Singh, associate professor of political science&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Singh-Ranjit10-199x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Singh-Ranjit10-680x1024.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/01\/Singh-Ranjit10-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Singh-Ranjit10-199x300.jpg 199w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Singh-Ranjit10-680x1024.jpg 680w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Singh-Ranjit10-768x1156.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Singh-Ranjit10-1020x1536.jpg 1020w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Singh-Ranjit10-1360x2048.jpg 1360w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Singh-Ranjit10-757x1140.jpg 757w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Singh-Ranjit10-399x600.jpg 399w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Singh-Ranjit10-scaled.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ranjit Singh, associate professor of political science<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The interview can be heard on January 7 at 4:30 p.m. on WCVE 88.9 FM and on Sunday, January 8 at 7 p.m. and Monday, January 9 at 12:30 a.m. on WAMU 88.5 FM. The segment, \u201cReflections on Arab Spring,\u201d is expected to be online beginning the week of the show at <a href=\"http:\/\/withgoodreasonradio.org\/2012\/01\/reflections-on-the-arab-spring\/\">http:\/\/withgoodreasonradio.org\/2012\/01\/reflections-on-the-arab-spring\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From 1992 to 1993, Singh worked as a ghostwriter for one of the royal family members of Bahrain. He was allowed access to members of the royal family and got to know them on a personal level. Now, 20 years later, Singh is sharing his experiences with the man who would become the minister of information of Bahrain and a key figure in the country\u2019s most recent uprising.<\/p>\n<p>Although Singh has not spoken to the minister of information in almost two decades, he remembers a man who had a servant to start his car, had expensive collections and was disconnected from the country\u2019s people. He told his story at an international workshop in Japan in October 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Singh received a doctorate from the University of Virginia, a master\u2019s degree in Arab studies from Georgetown University and a bachelor\u2019s degree from Mary Washington. He is the author of several scholarly works on the Middle East, as well as frequent op-eds for local and national newspapers. A recipient of UMW\u2019s Giving Tree Award, Singh served as an accredited international observer to elections in South Africa, Namibia, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Bangladesh, Liberia and Afghanistan, including the 1996, 2005 and 2006 Palestinian national elections, and the 2009 presidential and provincial election in Afghanistan. He is a member of the American Center for Oriental Research, the American Political Science Association, and the Middle East Studies Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Good Reason\u201d is the only statewide public radio program in Virginia. It hosts scholars from Virginia\u2019s public universities who discuss the latest in research, pressing social issues and the curious and whimsical. \u201cWith Good Reason\u201d is produced for the Virginia Higher Education Broadcasting Consortium by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and is broadcast in partnership with public radio stations in Virginia and Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong># # #<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>News release prepared by: Brynn Boyer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Mary Washington Associate Professor of Political Science Ranjit Singh will reflect on his experience with Bahrain\u2019s royal family in relation to last year\u2019s uprising in the Middle East during an interview on the \u201cWith Good Reason\u201d public radio program beginning Saturday, January 7. 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