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Social Media Sites in post-revolutionary Countries
Social Media sites such as YouTube and Facebook are helping protesters, particularly women, to reject traditional power structures.
In Egypt, a typically male-dominated society, women are using new access to social media sites to ensure their rights and freedoms. Before the revolution, women activists were arrested and quite possibly sexually assaulted. Citizens who dared to challenge the system were literally without protection.
Things have changed. Now women know they can take video with their cell phone and post it. Moreover, even if one phone is confiscated, or one person arrested, more people wlll post the same footage, shot from their phones.
Activists and women cannot act with immunity, but they are starting to usher in an era of transparency. More time is needed to thwart the many abuses committed across the Arab world by multiple governments; but a start provides hope.
About Laurize Mimay
Laurize Mimay is the Operations Manager for Michael Saad International and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the firm and supervision of it's divisions.