10 voices for change in Saudi Arabia

6. Wesal Abu al-Khair

Christa Case Bryant/The Christian Science Monitor
Ms. Abu al-Khair takes time out from preparing for medical school exams to speak to a group of US journalists at King Abdulaziz University in the coastal city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Medical student, King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah

"Revolution is not necessary to change a country – the people themselves need to change and to understand how change is important in order for us to be able to revolutionize. If the king changed, even if the system changed, if people don't understand how change is important, we're not going to build anything…. We're going to be like Egypt exactly."

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