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Amid revolution, Arab cartoonists are drawing attention

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Amid revolution, Arab cartoonists are drawing attention By Michael Cavna Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 6, 2011 It was August of 2006 when Dalia Ziada, a young Egyptian writer, discovered her favorite comic-book action hero. He trumpeted justice. He preached of nonviolent pressure. And he had dreams of a promised land that protest might bring. Ziada had just heard the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. "It was amazing and really moved me," says Ziada, now 29 and a Cairo-based activist. "Since then, I decided to use MLK nonviolent strategies in everything in my life, starting from my personal life to major political participation and civil problems - and it worked perfectly." Ziada tried out some of King's strategies that very August night, when she applied verbal "pressure and negotiation" to win a battle with her uncle, who was planning to have Ziada's 8-year-old niece circumcised in the morning...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 08, 2011 (boomark / email).