hey
are not theories, they are real lives that, thanks to social networks,
we are able to share and exchange," said Egyptian-American activist Mona
el-Tahawey, kicking off a summit that brought more than a hundred of
the Middle East's leading female activists together in Cairo.
With
her arms still bandaged from the assault she suffered at the hands of
Egypt's ruling military power last November, Tahawey was greeted like a
celebrity by cyberactivists who only knew her from Twitter as she kicked
off the Yahoo! Change Your World Cairo summit Wednesday.
The event brought together many of the region's leading activists to tell their stories of revolutions -- both successful an