By Nada Deyaa’, Daily News Egypt As a girl, to simply walk down the streets of Egypt means she’s willing to put up with abuse that runs between verbal, physical or even emotional. Dealing with being seen as a sex object and not allowed to do certain things in the streets is also a part of living as a girl in a conservative society like Egypt. But Mennatullah El-Husseiny decided to break that taboo. El-Husseiny is a 23-year-old law student who decided to fight the general outlook of Egyptian society towards girls and her rights to do everything that’s entitled “only for men”. The pure courage showed in her shaved hair up to her tattoo with the Arabic words “Shakily A’gebny” (“I like the way I look like”) is not something Egyptians get to see daily. And that applies as well to her small kiosk selling hot drinks in down town Cairo. The hot drink kiosk, which she named “El-Nasba” (hot drinks stand), sold all kinds of flavoured tea, coffee, and hot chocolate for pittance on the sidewalk by the Ministry of Religious Endowments near Tahrir Square in Cairo. “I’m…
This Egyptian Woman Started A Kiosk In Downtown Cairo To Break Social Taboos
January 18, 2015
