All posts tagged "women’s rights"

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...

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...

Batoul is a mother of five children, one of whom, Ahmed, has a critical heart condition, In...

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...

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

An Egyptian court has imprisoned the first doctor ever brought to trial in Egypt on female genital...

By Nada Deyaa’, Daily News Egypt As a girl, to simply walk down the streets of Egypt...

No woman in Cairo is invulnerable to sexual harassment—it is, unfortunately, an inescapable part of daily life...

By Eleonora Vio, Community Times. Photos courtesy of Noon Creative Enterprise. Earlier this year, the United Nations...

Egyptian cinema has been known to portray the lives of everyday Egyptians. It has often addressed issues and...

Riverside, a restaurant and bar in Cairo’s upscale district of Zamalek, has joined a string of bars,...