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Saudi Arabia: It is simply a very different society from Egypt, Tunisia or Syria

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Saudi Arabia: It is simply a very different society from Egypt, Tunisia or Syria

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The jigsaw-solving women of Jeddah feel campaigning is on the rise, but a Saudi summer to follow the Arab spring seems far off.

Asma, Amna and Dina, all 23, are no revolutionaries. As educated, English-speaking, iPod and iPad-carrying young Arabs, they are very much in the same demographic as those who organised the mass demonstrationprotests that ended the rule of President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt this year, but the three women are separated from their counterparts in Cairo by more than the Red Sea.

To read the whole analysis, visit the Guardian

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The jigsaw-solving women of Jeddah feel campaigning is on the rise, but a Saudi summer to follow the Arab spring seems far off.

Asma, Amna and Dina, all 23, are no revolutionaries. As educated, English-speaking, iPod and iPad-carrying young Arabs, they are very much in the same demographic as those who organised the mass demonstrationprotests that ended the rule of President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt this year, but the three women are separated from their counterparts in Cairo by more than the Red Sea.

To read the whole analysis, visit the Guardian

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