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February 18, 2011

Rage, Rap, Rebellion: Inside the Arab Youth Quake

Bobby Ghosh, Time

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At 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 15, as thousands of people gathered to protest against their ruler at a busy intersection in Manama, the capital of the small island nation of Bahrain, you could just about hear over the general hubbub the anthem of the young people who have shaken regimes from North Africa to the Arabian Gulf.
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