Sunday, October 14, 2012

The Arab Spring erupted. It wasn't a coupe, it was a transition.

Maria Al-Massani

The women activists (click here) of the Arab Spring converge in Cairo for the first Yahoo Change Your World Summiton the Arab Spring, opened by Mona Al-Tawhary, Egyptian Activist, Manal al Sharif, reknown Saudi activist leader on the campaign for women’s right to drive, Maria Al-Mansani of Yemen Right Monitor, Nobel Prize Nominee Asma Mahfouz of Egypt’s April 5 movement, Maryam al-Khawaja of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, and Darya Mohammed of Libya....

The impetus to this movement were women. In Egypt, it was a woman with a cell phone calling in her peers of both genders to stand up for their freedom. They were oppressed by the regimes placed there by external forces.