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October 25, 2011

Common Ground: Women of the Arab Spring: their issues are everyone’s issues

by Natana J. Delong-Bas
Common Ground News Service

Boston, Massachusetts - The capture and killing of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi, on-going demonstrations for an end to the oppressive reigns of Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, and new elections in Tunisia show that one thing has not changed in the Arab Spring – change itself. Even in Saudi Arabia, where requests for reform have not called for regime change, change is proving inevitable with the death of Crown Prince Sultan and questions about what direction the soon-to-be-named new crown prince may take the country.

Much of the world’s attention has focused not only on political changes in these countries – but also what these changes mean for the region’s women.

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