January 22, 2012
Libyans Studying in America Witness Revolution From Afar
Jay Premack for the chronicle
Libyan students participating in a diplomacy-training program at American University, in Washington, closely followed the Arab Spring protests that sparked a revolution in their own country.
When 28 young Libyans arrived at Dulles Airport, in suburban Washington, in September 2010 to begin a program at American University for future diplomats, little could they imagine how much their own future, and their country's, was about to change.
The men and women spent much of their time here watching the fall of three despotic Arab governments, including their own. In moments of despair, they heard of the deaths of family members and friends. In moments of elation in late August,
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