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Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman ((アラビア語:توكل عبد السلام خالد كرمان) ''Tawakkul ‘Abd us-Salām Karmān''; also Romanized ''Tawakul'', ''Tawakel''〔Evening Times (Glasgow). Arrest Sparks Protest. 24 January 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011 from the Lexis-Nexis Database.〕〔Emad Mekay. Arab Women Lead the Charge. Inter Press Service (Johannesburg), 11 February 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011 from the Lexis-Nexis Database.〕) (born 7 February 1979〔) is a Yemeni journalist, politician and senior member of the of Al-Islah political party, and human rights activist. She leads the group "Women Journalists Without Chains," which she co-founded in 2005.〔 She became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising that is part of the Arab Spring uprisings. She has been called the "Iron Woman" and "Mother of the Revolution" by Yemenis. She is a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman, and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize and the second youngest Nobel Peace Laureate to date. Karman gained prominence in her country after 2005 in her roles as a Yemeni journalist and an advocate for a mobile phone news service denied a license in 2007, after which she led protests for press freedom. She organized weekly protests after May 2007 expanding the issues for reform.〔 She redirected the Yemeni protests to support the "Jasmine Revolution," as she calls the Arab Spring, after the Tunisian people overthrew the government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011. She has been a vocal opponent who has called for the end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's regime.〔 A Saudi cable leak from WikiLeaks revealed that while publicly denouncing Saudi Arabia she was secretly arranging meetings with the Saudis to request their support. Karman lavished praise on the Saudis for pushing through a transition agreement that for many reformers, was seen as a deep betrayal of the revolution. She accused Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi of supporting the Houthis and Al Qaeda.〔https://saudicableleaks.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/tawakul-karman-turns-to-saudi-in-2011/〕 ==Personal life== Nobel Laureate Tawakkol Karman was born on 7 February 1979 in Mekhlaf, Taiz Governorate, Yemen. She grew up near Taiz, which is the third largest city in Yemen and is described as a place of learning in a conservative country.〔 She studied in Taiz. She is the daughter of Abdel Salam Karman, a lawyer and politician, who once served and later resigned as Legal Affairs Minister in Ali Abdullah Saleh's government.〔 She is the sister of Tariq Karman, who is a poet, and Safa Karman, who works as a journalist for ''Al-Jazeera''. She is married to Mohammed al-Nahmi〔 and is the mother of three children. Karman earned an undergraduate degree in commerce from the University of Science and Technology, a graduate degree in political science from the University of Sana'a.〔〔 In 2012, she received an Honorary Doctorate in International Law from University of Alberta in Canada. At a protest in 2010, a woman attempted to stab her with a jambiya but Karman's supporters managed to stop the assault.〔 According to Tariq Karman, "a senior Yemeni official" threatened his sister Tawakkol with death in a telephone call on 26 January 2011 if she continued her public protests.〔http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/obs_2011_uk-mmo.pdf〕 According to Dexter Filkins, writing in ''The New Yorker'', the official was President Saleh.〔 Karman claims that her family originated from Turkey's province of Karaman. The Turkish government offered her Turkish citizenship and she received her citizenship documents from the Turkish foreign minister on 11 October 2012.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tawakkol Karman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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