Chairwoman Activities
Nobel laureate lectures at Penn on social change and global Middle East
On Thursday 30th of September 2021 the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist Tawakkol Karman gave lecture entitled “Social Change and the Global Middle East”, held by the Andrea Mitchell Center for the
Study of Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.
According the center’s website, Mrs. Karman has shared her perspective on the Arab Spring and its legacy ten years later, in addition to her views on the dire crisis in Yemen, the risks faced by activists and journalists in Middle Eastern countries, and the current prospects for change in the region.