All posts tagged "egyptian women"

Amira, 26, commutes to work every day by bus. “Most of the time it is too crowded...

Egypt is today home to 262,333 residents who are divided between 237,117 refugees, and 25,194 asylum seekers,...

By Nada Deyaa’, Daily News Egypt When the minister asked if the employees face any troubles at...

Egyptian journalist Cherif Choubachy has called for veiled women to join a rally in Tahrir Square to take...

A photograph of a journalist carrying her son while conducting interviews on the streets of Egypt has...

Egyptians are more open to women in politics, but why are we seeing little evidence of that?...

“Be a man.” That is the primary slogan of Birell, a beer company which came to the...

The majority of Egyptians believe that all Egyptians, regardless of political affiliation, should have the same right...

By Reem Abdellatif, freelance journalist It wasn’t easy growing up as a teenage Muslim girl, with a...

By UN Women For men in Egypt and in many other countries in the Middle East, there...

There are plenty of hard-to-miss signs to tell that Mother’s Day is approaching. For instance, advertisements for...

Once upon a time there was a land called Egypt, reigned by a man. In love with...

Sisa Abu Daooh was just 21 and pregnant with a girl when her husband passed away. After...

In the past few years, Egypt’s streets haven’t been the most welcoming of spaces to women of...

There is no doubt that violence against women (VAW) is a major challenge in Egypt, in all...

Female genital mutilation is an everyday horror that more than 91 percent of Egyptian women between the ages...

By Leia Walker, Egyptian Streets Microbuses: beasts of the street, rulers of the road; and much like...