Women's Voices on the Arab Spring: Isobel Coleman
Isobel Coleman discusses the role of women in the Arab Spring.
Speaker: Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy; Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative; Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program and Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
November 10, 2010
CFR's Isobel Coleman discusses the rise of women in a professional and public capacity in the Middle East with students, as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call series.
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