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‘You Are More Important’: Egypt Campaign Targets Better Quality of Life for Arab Women

October 5, 2016
Photo: Hana Gammal

“Women, numerically, make up half of the population; but in reality the woman is the one who nurtures and controls the other half. Therefore, if you want to reform the society, you’d better focus on women.” From this perspective, Misr Foundation for Health and Sustainable Development launched its latest initiative, “Enty El Aham,” Arabic for “You are More Important.” “Women are the ones capable of fixing the society; however, they do not know their rights. And this is why we are pursing ‘Enty El Aham,’” Dr. Amr Hassan, the founder of the initiative and a lecturer and consultant of gynecology and obstetrics at Cairo University told Egyptian Streets. According to Dr. Hassan, the initiative differs from any other waves of feminism through an embedded role of men in encouraging and promoting its call. “All the other waves are only about women talking to [other] women about women’s problems and they either exclude men or attack them,” Dr. Hassan says. “In our campaign, both men and women will be talking about women’s rights to create a generation where they are both working together.” Dr. Hassan denounces some of the other initiatives…


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