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Sharan Grewal

Sharan Grewal

Sharan Grewal is a research fellow at the Middle East Initiative at Harvard University. He is also an assistant professor of government at the College of William & Mary and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He received a doctorate in politics from Princeton University in 2018. His first book, “Soldiers of Democracy? Military Legacies and the Arab Spring,” was published with Oxford University Press in 2023.

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How Disinformation Fueled the Tunisian Revolution

How Disinformation Fueled the Tunisian Revolution

When news spread that Gen. Rachid Ammar had refused an order to have the army fire on protesters during the Tunisian Revolution, it emboldened the resistance and made Ammar a hero. But neither the order — nor the refusal — ever happened.

Sharan Grewal