LEWISTON — Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Boston-based Albert Einstein Institution, will speak about strategic nonviolent action movements around the world in four locations in Maine on Nov. 11 to 13.

Raqib will speak on “How to Start a Revolution” at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, in Chase Hall at Bates College and at 7 p.m. at the Curtis Library in Brunswick.

Raqib’s topic will be “The Power and Potential of Nonviolent Struggle: Lessons from the Arab Spring, the Global Occupy Movement, and Beyond” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, at Given Auditorium at Colby College, and at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union at the University of Maine in Orono.

Raqib, who is originally from Afghanistan, has worked with noted researcher and writer Gene Sharp since 2002 in developing strategies that people throughout the world have used to create nonviolent revolutions against their autocratic or oppressive governments.

She is also a co-author with Sharp of a book on nonviolent strategies and authored a chapter in another book on the Arab Spring revolution in Tunisia. Raqib has become a public face and speaker for strategies for citizen groups in organizing a successful nonviolent revolution in their country.

All talks are free and open to the public. For more information about the talks and efforts to promote nonviolent strategies in Maine, contact Larry Dansinger, [email protected] or 525-7776.