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Egyptian Woman ‘Spat on by Man over Short Dress’

September 1, 2018

A young Egyptian woman took to her Facebook account to recount a sexual harassment incident, where a man stuck his head out of a car window and spat at her in protest of her wearing a short dress. The woman, whose name is Lobna Radwan, said that she was harassed only two minutes after she got out of a bus and started walking her way into City Stars mall, located in Nasr city, East of Cairo. In her Facebook post, which garnered more than one thousand shares, Radwan stated that the said incident was not recent but she felt the urge to post it to give people a realistic account of “the streets that [we] are walking on and the people that we are getting to encounter, and only during a two-minute walk.” Radwan further added that she also decided to tell the stomach-churning story in solidarity with Menna Gubran, the girl who video-taped a harasser that allegedly stalking and harassing her on a street in Cairo’s Fifth Settlement district. The harasser then asked her to join him for coffee date at a nearby café; the man said it was to…


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