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Fresh out of my bachelor’s degree, I found myself at the Cairo branch of a multinational company,...

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On Monday 9 March 2021, a video of a man assaulting a young girl went viral. The...

Pioneering Egyptian feminist and human rights advocate, prolific author, novelist, physician and psychologist Nawal El Saadawi passed...

It was a Wednesday evening, a little over 10 days ago, when Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old marketing...