The power of storytelling and activism

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  Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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  Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

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  It's great to see so many of you here today and also online.

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  And we have in this part of the room, you may well be already able to feel it.

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  We have the air of global celebrity.

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  Sadly not coming from me, but coming from our wonderful guests that have joined us today.

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  So we have with us Yasmin Abdel Majid, no less.

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  Sudanese author, screenwriter, award-winning social advocate, loved by millions of young readers for her teen fiction,

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  and now adored by, shall we say, not so young readers for her debut adult fiction book at sea.

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  This is your seventh book for good and sake.

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  So a very warm welcome to you.

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  And also, Amir Nizar Twerpe.

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  Founding artistic director of Sheba Huya Theatre Company in Palestine and an award-winning playwright

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  and director and artistic director of war productions leading the herds and little Amal.

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  So it's an absolute pleasure to have you both here today.

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  My name is Joanna Lewis and I'm a professor

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  here at LSE in Imperial History and also director of the Center for Women, Peace and Security.

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  So why a session very quickly then on storytelling and activism?

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  You've been at the festival, you've been so good, I'm sure you've had all the data,

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  all the facts, all the clever arguments, all the theories, the predictions, more data.

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