The Heroines of the Arab World

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8.TAL AL-MOLOUHI

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Tal al-Molouhi symbolized the Syrian regime’s repressive policies long before the revolutions of the Arab Spring. A high school student who blogged poems and wrote articles advocating for Palestinian causes and a more just Syria, Molouhi was arrested in 2009 for her writing. The Arab blogosphere denounced her arrest as an example of the capricious and fanatical crackdown on free speech in Syria.

In February 2011, Molouhi — who was brought into court chained and blindfolded — was sentenced to five years in prison. “This is my Homeland, in which I have a palm tree, a drop in a cloud, and a grave to protect me,” says one of her poems. “My master: I would like to have power even for one day to build the ‘republic of feelings.'”

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