down the avenue: Asma Abbas: What Does Heartbreak Have to do with Politics?

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April 04, 2010

Asma Abbas: What Does Heartbreak Have to do with Politics?

Author and professor Asma Abbas who has received her doctorate in Political Theory and Social Thought asks the TEDX Berkeley audience: What do you think heartbreak is and what does it have to do with politics?"

Asma also talks about how it relates to suffering and what suffering means in the west versus more diverse, less homogeneous societies. She asks, "what is it that you and I would die for?"