ANN ARBOR/DEARBORN – The University of Michigan and the Yemeni American community of Dearborn have both invited 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman of Yemen to speak about the role of women in the Arab Spring movements.

Karman is known as the “mother of revolution” in Yemen after leading protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The Dearborn event will occur at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center on Michigan Avenue at 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13. For more info on the event, call 313.523.6367 or 313.286.4057 or visit www.supportyemen.com. The event is being hosted by the Yemeni Popular Support Committee and the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

The Ann Arbor lecture will begin at 4 p.m. on November 14 at Rackham Auditorium on UM-Ann Arbor’s campus at 915 East Washington St. in Ann Arbor.

Karman, a 32-year-old mother of three, known as the “mother of revolution” in Yemen after leading protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, will be the second Nobel Peace laureate to speak at U-M in the past month. Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, awarded the Nobel in 1991, spoke to students via video on Oct. 25 when she received the Wallenberg Medal.

Female empowerment was the main theme of this year’s prize, and Karman shared the award with two other women: Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf Johnson and Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee.

The Yemeni American community in Dearborn was also expected to host her at an event in the city.