![]() ![]() ![]() I was born and raised in Denmark – a free and secular country and for most of my life I have taken free speech for granted. Mchangama also details the rising threats to free speech, and how power is used to silence others, something our readers across the MENA region know all too much about. The book outlines the history of free speech as a concept, and how this fundamental right is our “first freedom”, from which all other freedoms follow. Our translators just finished translating his book Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media into Arabic and are now hard at work disseminating the book across the Middle East. Jacob Mchangama is a Danish lawyer, writer, and the founder of Justitia, a think tank that promotes and defends individual freedom, the rule of law, and human rights worldwide. ![]() An IBB interview on the triumphs and troubles of free speech in the Middle East. ![]()
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