Senior students launch multimedia website on Arab youth role in Middle East and North Africa uprisings

By Elizabeth Krupka
June 5, 2012

Young people are raising their voices, demanding change – new opportunities, better education, more freedom. In the Middle East and North Africa, these voices became known as the Arab Spring.

To accomplish their goals, young adults have organized marches and protests, causing unrest and civilian clashes.  The Arab Spring has evolved into a regional Arab Awakening as citizens attempt to throw off the shackles of decades of restrictive oppression.

Cabrini College Communication Department seniors, in a course taught by Professor Cathy Yungmann, created a website based on interviews conducted with young people and others involved in the Arab Awakening. The Cabrini students established a relationship with a graduate-level political science class taught by Professor Pandeli Glavanis at the American University in Cairo.

The site tells stories of discontent caused by decades of political autocracy, stories of awakening as young people revolt, and hopes for the aftermath of political upheaval.

 

 

 

 

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