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February 16, 2011

The Unlikely Face of Yemen’s Uprising

By Michelle Shephard, Toronto Star, Canada – The face of Yemen's revolution is lightly powdered and framed by a baby-blue hijab. Tawakul Karman is not the image that comes to mind when thinking of Yemen, a poor and unstable Arab nation of nearly 24 million, and a country whose name is most often associated these days with Al Qaeda.

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