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Last Night at the Forum

admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:40:54 +0000

“Yemen has an active women’s movement independent of Western thought. What Yemen needs right now is investment in infrastructure.” -Leila Farsakh

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admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:39:38 +0000

“Even in the U.S., the Constitution did not start out protecting minorities. Yet in the 1860s, the Ottoman Empire’s constitution *did* explicitly protect minorities.” -Elizabeth Thompson

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admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:37:40 +0000

“The U.S. can remove some obstacles to democracy from the more stable communities.” -Elizabeth Thompson

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admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:36:51 +0000

“There’s a role for the international community in taking the guns away from everyone.” -Leila Farsakh

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admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:36:01 +0000

“Tunisia had a 30% unemployment rate due to government corruption, not to mention unbearable inequality.” -Leila Farsakh

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admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:35:06 +0000

“Syrians have had an *interrupted* struggle for democracy. They rose up in the hopes of retrieving something snatched by the West a century before.” -Elizabeth Thompson

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admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:33:32 +0000

“The Arab Spring is a rebuttal and a memory of a hero. The language of this movement is 100 years old.” -Elizabeth Thompson

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admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:32:21 +0000

“Regional powers are key in determining whether each government will succeed.” -Leila Farsakh

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admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:27:07 +0000

“Everyone wants to play a democratic game but they lack experience and trust.” -Leila Farsakh

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admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:26:09 +0000

“A protest of a fruit vendor turned into self-immolation, which turned into a worldwide movement.” -Elizabeth Thompson