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DUBAI (Reuters) - For Bahraini activist Maryam al-Khawaja, who lives in self-imposed exile in Kansas City, the pandemic at least had a silver lining. Authorities at home allowed her to speak to her jailed father online because personal prison visits were banned.
FILE PHOTO: Anti-government demonstrators listen to speeches at Pearl Square in Manama February 20, 2011. REUTERS/Caren Firouz/File Photo
“I had the chance to see his face for the first time since 2014,” she told Reuters.
It was an unexpected moment of joy, yet also a reminder of the toll Bahrain’s uprising 10 years ago has taken on her family.
(Corrects university in paragraph 14, date in paragraph 24) By Aziz El Yaakoubi DUBAI, Feb 16 (Reuters) - For Bahraini activist Maryam al-Khawaja, who.
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Published date: 14 February 2021 10:26 UTC | Last update: 1 month 1 week ago
The sense of optimism that spurred on demonstrators on 14 February 2011 has been obliterated as foreign governments continue to acquiesce to a decade-long crackdown
In his recent book
A Promised Land, former US president Barack Obama reflects on his time as leader of the free world at a moment when the Middle East was erupting in a cascade of demonstrations that would come to be known as the Arab Spring.
In the book, Obama discusses how he tried to ease Hosni Mubarak out of Egypt as the 2011 uprisings seemed poised to topple his administration, despite the autocrat s well-established relationship with the US. After Mubarak s removal, Obama notes that he was cautiously optimistic about the country s future.