Dalia Mogahed: The attitudes that sparked Arab Spring

http://www.ted.com Pollster Dalia Mogahed shares surprising data on Egyptian people's attitudes and hopes before the Arab Spring -- with a special focus on the role of women in sparking change.

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[Syeal7]

The one real answer to that is beyond anything I or anyone here which doesn't know anything about this woman can tell.

Every human being has his own life, own story and own reasons for whatever characteristics that are applied on them.

But from experience, the most woman that wear hijab is due to own choice, even when their own mothers doesn't wear it and the same way around.

The point is. You can't directly assume something about a random person that you have zero acknowledge about.

[Nouman Ali]

I bet you, most of those 205 thumbs down are because of her veil..



[Nana osh osh]

يا حرام ما حدا سمع بالربيع العربي ، بس يا هل ترى هل كنت من خططوا له في البيت الابيض، في عالم ما باستحوا على حالهم عندما يكذبوا وانت منهم يا داليا

[Andalus Hamza]

Umm .. Egypt is definitely NOT the largest Arab country

[filipamd]

lol ok whatever you say buddy

[Ghalamalik]

ووووجهها قمه في الرجولة ههههه الله يسعدها يااارب

But i like this speech

Thanks

[danielxu94560]

"Arab spring" is the swarming of the locust in the book of Revelation 9. They are from the bottomless pit. Full of smoke. Just like Obama. They are pretending to be religious. All wearing crown of "turban" as if they are kings. Wait till their leader shows up. His names spelled out by two languages and you can't miss it. He is the only person already been sentenced to death. Satan. Who is Satan? Hebrews 2:14. Death.

[abdelrahman fathy]

Nice work. keep up with the good effort and spirit

[JaghoriLover]

The Arabs are OWNED by West.

[salahhe .]

I was just listening to this and towards the end I looked at the screen to see if she looked like I imagined her. That is when I saw her and that scarf over her head and I felt confused by the ugly blue where the beautiful perfect curly brown mane should have been. So is her hear curled or not? Still curious.