Updated: Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 8:20 AM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 8:20 AM EDT
(FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - The "Arab Spring" has brought to light women of significance in several countries, many of whom are sharing powerful stories that are geographically and culturally "a world away."
Dalia Ziada has been called one of the bravest bloggers in the world by the Daily Beast. Newsweek called her "one of 150 women who shook the world."
Ziada is a human rights activist and the director of American Islamic Congress' Egypt Office in Cairo.
But it's her personal story rather more so than her professional one that may shock and intrigue you.
Watch the interview for more.
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