In Yemen, revolution has become as vital as air and water, even if the only reason may be the fact that people are tired of seeing the picture of their president for 32 years. We have always thought we would wake up one day and find him taking up half of our bed.

In the history of Yemen, fundamentalist Muslims and Marxists have never been united before now. This is a common search for freedom, I keep saying to myself. Revolution has become inevitable, for that is what people want.
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Yemen (AP) — She is known among Yemenis as "the iron woman" and the "mother of the revolution." A conservative woman fighting for change in a conservative Muslim and tribal society,Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman has been the face of the mass uprising against the authoritarian regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The 32-year-old Karman has been an activist for human rights in Yemen for years, but when she was arrested in January, it helped detonate protests by hundreds of thousands demanding the ouster of Saleh and the creation of a democratic government.
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