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 su...