Um Ahmad was the first woman to join
the protests in Douma, a town on the eastern outskirts of Damascus.
She is 22 years old and Um Ahmad is not her real name, but nobody likes to
give their real name in Syria these days.
Wearing a veil under her pink coat, she lights a cigarette and recalls the
first days of the movement.
"I used to go door-to-door knocking on women's houses to encourage them to
take to the street," she said...
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