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Dick Lugar: “What I wonder is just as further observation, many of the people most celebrated in the Arab Spring were young people…”

On the recordFebruary 6, 2012
What I wonder is just as further observation, many of the people most celebrated in the Arab Spring were young people demonstrating in the squares, using Twitter and other forms of social media.
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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Lugar reflects on the role of youth in the Arab Spring and subsequent political changes.

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