Vice
| May 13, 2013
Activists are alarmed by increasing assaults on women in Cairo, including on demonstrators at Tahrir Square. Women are speaking out and men have banded together as bodyguards in orange and green vests to protect female protesters from assaults, wh...
BBC Arabic
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Mosaic
| Feb 6, 2013
Numerous mob-led sexual assaults surfaced during the recent protests marking the second anniversary of the January 25th revolution in Egypt. Many activists believe that these attacks are an attempt to silence women and distance them from public a...
ARTE France
| Oct 29, 2011
4Shbab is the first Islamist musical channel ever launched in the Arab world. 4Shbab's story and its protagonists reflect the melting pot of cultural contradictions that is the Middle East today: how to be modern, fond of music, and Muslim? They w...
Al Jazeera English
| Jul 3, 2012
For years, Egyptian women have put up with sexual harassment, simply for walking down the street. Now they are coming out into the open to say 'enough is enough'. At a rally in Tahrir Square last month, female protestors came under attack. Water...
VOA News
| Jun 27, 2012
Islamist politician Mohamed Morsi will be sworn in Saturday as Egypt's new president. Mariama Diallo of VOA News examines what this power shift means for relations between the United States and Egypt, as well as other post-revolution democracies.
Associated Press
| Mar 16, 2012
Women in Egypt are turning to graffiti as they demand more rights and freedoms and try to change the traditional perception of women there.
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 11, 2012
An Egyptian military doctor has been acquitted of forcing female protesters to undergo virginity tests. "I've been vilified by the media. Only one side was represented and I couldn't say anything because I was a conscript. The...
ABC News (Australia)
| Mar 12, 2012
An Egyptian military court has acquitted Ahmed Adel, an army doctor who was accused of conducting forced virginity tests on female protesters in March, 2011.
Ahram Online
| Mar 8, 2012
Hundreds of women march to the Egyptian parliament demanding justice and equality. Protesters were calling for a fair representation in the constitutional assembly that will write Egypt's new constitution, and for the trials of police and army off...
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...In May 2011, a new electoral law was passed by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces which took power and dissolved parliament following the o...
— Mar 8, 2012 at 10:24 pm
Prominent Egyptian women talked skeptically about the influence and “low-representation” of women in the Parliament and state institutions of Egypt...
— Mar 16 at 03:52 pm
...rights,” says Inas Mekkawy, an advocate. “Women will not allow the Muslim Brotherhood to accomplish any of these plans.” A similar attitude was ...
— Jun 6, 2012 at 03:17 pm
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