Egyptian player Mohamed Salah expressed in an interview with TIME that there needs to be change in the way women are treated in Egypt and the Middle East, and that he now supports women more than before. “I think we need to change the way we treat women in our culture,” Salah said. “It’s not optional.” “I support the woman more than I did before, because I feel like she deserves more than what they give her now, at the moment.” The 26-year-old Liverpool star was named one of the US magazine’s 100 most influential figures of the year, alongside other athletes including Tiger Woods, LeBron James and Naomi Osaka. Women in Egypt have faced both successes and failures since the main feminist movement in the 20th century, led by the remarkable Huda Shaarawi. Doria Shafik, one of the principal leaders the women’s liberation movement in Egypt in the mid-1940s, granted the right to vote by the Egyptian constitution for Egyptian women as a result of her efforts. According to the constitutional amendments approved by the parliament this month, the parliament approved a 25 percent quota of parliamentary seats to female candidates. However,…
Mohamed Salah: ‘We Need to Change the Way We Treat Women in Our Culture’
April 18, 2019
