Bahrain: “Our Women are Iron Women” · Global Voices
Amira Al Hussaini

Bahraini Twitter users took a break from politics and had some fun this morning on the microblogging social network. Artist Anas Al Shaikh read a news article which said that an Iraqi woman had killed herself in protest against her husband watching dubbed Turkish soap operas.
Turkish soap operas have replaced the Mexican ones in recent years. Dubbed into Arabic, they are popular with audiences who follow the episodes, which sometimes run for months.
Al Shaikh shared the newsy tidbit with his Twitter followers and asked:
The pun was not lost and the comment sparked a lot of reactions.
Um Salman says:
Bahraini women have been at the forefront of anti-government protests which started in Bahrain in February 2011. flickr photograph from Al Jazeera English used under  (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Esraa adds:
And Fatima Salim notes: