Iyad el-Baghdadi
At the start of the Arab Spring a decade ago you were working in tech start-ups; by the end you were a prominent voice for the movement. How did this happen?
The Arab Spring was a moment of awakening. Not just for me, but for an entire generation. I grew up thinking we were not being ruled by a legitimate order, that we deserved something better, more native and more representative of us. But I never thought change and political agency would happen in my lifetime. I thought the regimes were too entrenched. There was a sense that it
