Civil rights in the Mid-East [View All]

[riderinthestorm]

My daughter has to write an essay about civil rights in the Middle East. Here's the question:

"How can you as an individual support the struggle for civil rights in the Middle East? Without waiting for the government to act, consider how you can leverage your freedom to challenge repression by dictators. Reflect on recent technological advances that empower individuals, as well as recent grassroots organizing by people your age across the Middle East. Consider the tools you have access to that American civil rights activists in the 1960s did not. Propose a specific campaign young Americans could lead to help defend civil rights in the Middle East."

Does anyone have any suggestions on resources/books/scholars/authorities we could look up to get more information to present some good answers for comparison with the US civil rights efforts? Or can you give me any ideas for her to use in the essay? She is really stumped and I told her that DU has such a wide variety of scholars online that this would be a good place to start!

This is a senior class essay project and worth a good portion of her grade so please feel free to range wide and far with suggestions, sources and ideas.

Many thanks!