Palestinian activist Iyad el-Baghdadi, a leading intellectual of the Arab Spring, talks fighting disinformation with Jan-Peter Westad.
Iyad el-Baghdadi is a Palestinian activist based in Oslo who became a key thinker for pro-democracy movements during the Arab Spring. He speaks to Jan-Peter Westad about fighting disinformation and living with threats from the murderous Saudi regime.
At the start of the Arab Spring a decade ago you were working in tech start-ups; by the end you were a prominent voice for the movement. How did this happen?
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