The New York Times has posted articles on number of young people from the Middle East.... Its worth readingBullets Stall Youthful Push for Arab Spring
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN New York Times
Published: March 17, 2011
MANAMA, Bahrain — These days, Muhammad al-Maskati is a prisoner in his apartment, his BlackBerry shut off by the government, the streets outside his apartment filled with tanks, the hospitals around town packed with the wounded.
Mr. Maskati is a 24-year-old human rights activist who not long ago felt so close to achieving Egypt’s kind of peaceful revolution, through a dogged commitment to nonviolence. Then the Saudi tanks rolled into Bahrain, and protesters came under attack, the full might of the state hammering at unarmed civilians...more
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