Anna Therese Day is a freelance journalist covering women’s issues and youth movements in the Arab Spring. Ms. Day has worked, traveled, studied, and volunteered throughout the region since 2007, and her coverage has included Gaza post-Operation Cast Lead, Lebanon’s 2009 post-election violence, a variety of aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, [...]

Libyan women’s activists, Amany Mufta Ismail and Nebras Attias,  explain in their own words their reaction to the story of Eman Al-Obeidy. “She is a logo for us… She is a Libyan logo for us,” explains 22-year-old Amany Mufta Ismail, a women’s organizer in the Eastern Libyan city of Dirna. In recent months, Al-Obeidy, a 29-year-old Libyan [...]

Libyan women’s activists, Amany Mufta Ismail and Nebras Attias,  explain in their own words their reaction to the story of Eman Al-Obeidy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=YkhLIJkW8cQ “She is a logo for us… She is a Libyan logo for us,” explains 22-year-old Amany Mufta Ismail, a women’s organizer in the Eastern Libyan city of Dirna. In recent months, Al-Obeidy, a 29-year-old [...]

Libyan women’s activists, Amany Mufta Ismail and Nebras Attias,  explain in their own words their reaction to the story of Eman Al-Obeidy. “She is a logo for us… She is a Libyan logo for us,” explains 22-year-old Amany Mufta Ismail, a women’s organizer in the Eastern Libyan city of Dirna. In recent months, Al-Obeidy, a 29-year-old Libyan [...]