The online magazine Ozy covers people, places and trends on the horizon. Co-founder Carlos Watson joins All Things Considered regularly to tell us about the site's latest discoveries. This week, Watson tells NPR's Arun Rath about about a rising star in soccer who could turn things around for England in the World Cup, and a Bahraini woman who calls herself an "Accidental activist." He also shares a clip from an Ozy interview with President Bill Clinton regarding Nelson Mandela's legacy. "Maryam al-Khawaja, a 26-year-old activist in Bahrain, calls herself, appropriately, 'the accidental activist.' While she grew up in a family of activists who'd been protesting for more freedom in that oil-rich country of about a million people, the reality is she actually tried to step away from it. ... And ultimately when her father was arrested, sister arrested, brother-in-law arrested - and not only arrested, but beaten - she found herself drawn to that work and try to stimulate a furtherance of the Arab Spring effort in Bahrain."
Source: NPR
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