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Atiaf Z. Alwazir

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Garbage Collectors and the Struggle for Workers' Rights in Yemen

Jun 01 2012
[Honorary Ceremony for Garbage Collectors in May 2012. Photo by Atiaf Alwazir.]

“I will do everything I can to grow a field in the desert.” - Haidar Swaid, Member of the Garbage Collectors Syndicate In both the foreign and local press, conventional frameworks for understanding the uprising in Yemen locate its popular impetus within two main social groupings: the disaffected middle-class urban youth, who first occupied the streets and squares and called for an end to both corruption and the ruling regime; and tribesmen and political party members, who ...

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Atiaf Z. Alwazir

 

Atiaf Zaid Alwazir is a researcher based in Sana’a, Yemen. Her career focused on nonprofit work dedicated to promoting social justice. Since the beginning of the Yemeni revolution in January 2011, Ms. Alwazir was documenting and analyzing the situation as a citizen journalist/blogger in her blog and contributing to media outlets. Her work has been published in Arab Reform Initiative, Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), Al-Akhbar and Foreign Policy. She is also a member of the Support Yemen video advocacy campaign to promote grassroots involvement and reforms in Yemen.

 

 

His poems will be read with admiration and awe, but perhaps it’s time to forget about Adunis the cultural critic and radical intellectual. The Arab Spring has consigned Adunis, the self-proclaimed revolutionary, to irrelevance. And that is the beauty of revolutions.
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