Iraqi Women's Activism—20 Years After the US Invasion
"No, no, your voice is not shameful, your voice is a revolution!” Thousands of Iraqi women shouted these words in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square in October 2019. The unprecedented scale of women’s participation helped turn what could have been just another wave of popular protests, which had grown more common over the past decade, into an uprising. Thawra Tishreen (the October Revolution) saw ordinary people demonstrating against the political class and the system that had been put in place following the US-led invasion in 2003.
Source: merip.org