All posts tagged "women’s rights"

“I felt like a whole new person,” says Amal, “and I am starting to love myself again....

Earlier this week, 17-year-old Egyptian bride who reportedly escaped from her 37-year-old Saudi husband on the first...

Updated June 2019 In recent years, sexual harassment has been a key social issue in Egypt. In...

An Egyptian woman was harassed in broad daylight in Cairo’s Fifth Settlement on 15 August 2018. The...

International Women’s Day has been celebrated ever since the 1920s. It was originally for women to ask...

The rate of sexual harassment in Egypt was only 9.6 percent in 2016, and the claims stating that...

The People’s Girls (بنات الناس), a short documentary that explores sexual harassment in Egypt through a series...

Tunisian President Beji Caed Essibsi called on Sunday on the prime minister and minister of justice to...

When Iman objected to her husband’s decision to take a second wife, he threw her out of...

As a little girl, like all other little girls, Manal Rostom was given kitchen sets and dolls....

In a step that proves that Saudi women are attempting to change the rules of the game,...

For those who don’t know what “Cairo Confessions” is, it is a Facebook page that you send...

Nadia Ahmed Abdou was sworn in on Thursday before president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi as the new governor...

The gender pay gap is not an issue that is limited to the Arab World; it has...

The Council of Senior Clerics, affiliated with Egypt’s Al-Azhar, upheld the validity of verbal divorce in a...

The last five words of Mona Eltahawy’s Headscarves and Hymens are “words say we are here”. Sure...

Egypt’s Parliament has responded to President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s calls for an urgent bill to reform the law...