Africa: Arab Awakening Offers Women Opportunities, Challenges

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Washington — Women joined, and in some cases led, the pro-democracy movements in the Middle East and North Africa in the spring of 2011, but what place will they have in their emerging governments?

On September 20, a group of female activists and leaders from the region gathered in Washington at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars to participate in two panels on "Women and Democratic Transition in the Middle East."

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