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2011: The Year When Citizens Woke Up
As both a Syrian and Spanish citizen Leila Nachawati, activist and journalist and participant of the event The Changing Face of Citizen Action, she has found herself in the middle of citizen mobilisations in both countries at the same time. "Growing up in the Middle Eastern context of repression and lack of freedom, mobilizations in the Arab countries seemed like a miracle to me, to my friends and my family. After decades of dictatorship suddenly everything was shaking".




















