— As demonstrations first swelled in Yemen, regime supporters
distributed a photo showing Tawakkul Karman at a protest with a male
colleague — cutting out others around them — to taint her for being
alone with a man.
Karman's Nobel Peace Prize draws attention to the role of women in
the Arab Spring uprisings; they have rebelled not only against dictators
but against a traditional, conservative mindset that fears women as
agents of change.Women have participated in all the protests sweeping the Arab world, working both online to mobilize and on the ground to march, chant and even throw themselves into stone-throwing clashes with security forces — side by side with men.
