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Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the School of International Studies, SciencesPo in Paris stopped by our studio to talk with anchor Marco Werman about hip hop inspired by the Arab Spring.
Graffiti of Tupac Shakur in Mauritania. (Photo: Jean-Pierre Filiu)
Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the School of International Studies, SciencesPo in Paris, is in Boston to lecture at Harvard on the topic revolution, Islamism and jihad in North Africa, but he stopped by our studio to talk with anchor Marco Werman about his other interest, hip hop inspired by the Arab Spring.