Demanding dignity
Subtitle: young voices from the front lines of the arab revolutions
By: Co-Editors: Maytha Alhassen and Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
Series: I speak for myself series
Publisher: White Cloud Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ashland, Ore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781935952718
Subjects: Politics and government; Youth; Revolutions; Arab Spring, 2010-; Political activity; History
Description: Their voices are as varied as their individual stories, but their destinies are shared. This collection brings together essays written by today's generation of Arab youth who have directly inspired and sparked a revolutionary spirit that toppled governments, unearthing the corruption of decades of dictator dominated countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
Table of contents: title: A young man's spark (bouazizi) / by anas canon; title: Serendipity in Syria / by Muhammad Radwan; title: Another flight / by Maryam Al Khawaja; title: Flying into a revolution / by Abubakr al-Shamahi; title: I will drive my own life / by Manal Al Sharif, (being revised); title: From nowhere to somewhere / by Dina Sadek; title: Egypt the country, the people, the idea. live-tweeting a revolution / by Sultan Al Qassemi; title: A journey to activism / by Yasmin Haloui; title: Egypt to Libya: arab solidarity 2.0 / by Adel Abdel Ghafar; title: I do not read history. i write it / by Achref Aouadi; title: Rami Jarrah (not submitted yet); title: Progress is painful, costly and slow / by Atiaf Alwazir; title: 13) Battling Bahrain's crimes of humanity / by Matar Ebrahim Matar; title: 14) Not your prisoner by arabian knightz ft. shadia mansour; title: Muslim, Christian; one hand! / by Adel Iskandar; title: After years of silence / by Baraa Shaiban; title: Escaping politics: when it runs in your blood it ain't easy / by Dina Duella; title: Inspired by revolution to educate my generation / by Jalal Abu-Khater; title: Faceless brutality in Egypt's revolution / by Sarrah Abdelrahman; title: It's about dignity / by Omar Radi; title: 21) Change in Saudia Arabia is inevitable / by Ahmed Al Omran; title: Domino effect / by Omar Offendum.