All posts tagged "women’s rights"

Growing up in Egypt, female genital mutilation (FGM) was to me, a woman, a well-known, much-feared and...

On 11 January, the Egyptian Council for Women’s Rights (ECWR) filed a complaint to the Supreme Council...

In an effort to quell ongoing protests, Iranian authorities announced that they will review the law which...

When Egyptian talk show host Yasmine Ezz dedicated an entire monologue to remind her female viewers that...

Egypt has long been home to the Arab world’s golden screen – the Hollywood of the Middle...

A criminal court in Giza, Egypt handed judge Ayman Haggag and his accomplice Hussein El-Gharably, a death...

A nineteen-year-old Egyptian woman was killed by a deliberate gunshot wound, on 3 September by her neighbor...

  Egypt’s Ministry of Interior announced on Thursday, September 1, that police arrested a man who leaked...

When Dutch documentary filmmakers Joop Van Wijk and Hillie Molenaar visited Egypt’s rural regions in 1981, they...

After 20 months since the court ruling, the death sentence was carried out on Thursday, August 11,...

For the first time in President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s presidency, a national dialogue is taking place. According...

Cyber relationships are nothing new to Egyptians. Gone are the days when the only matchmaker was a...

On 14 June, a joint statement by G7 countries – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United...

Image Credit: Sabah Khodir/Instagram On Sunday, 12 June, Noura Essam, a 23-year-old Egyptian woman, became the subject...

Egypt’s Criminal Court in Tanta sentenced three men on Tuesday, 10 May to 15 years in jail,...

Cairo’s Criminal Court sentenced Egyptian TikTok influencer Haneen Hossam, convicted of human trafficking, to three years in...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) observed in a 2020 report that “a new generation of smart machines,...