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Latest in Tag: women
Egyptian women and Morsy
You have to have lived in Egypt to understand what I am writing about now. Many foreigners would say that it is a failed attempt to empower Egyptian women, but the few who have spent years over here fully get it. Women run Egypt. Even one of the Lonely Planet guides advises their readers to …
Women critical of referendum process
NCW flooded with complaints of voting violations from female witnesses
Al-Dostour to campaign for referendum âNoâ vote
Party heads seek boycott but youth to go forward with campaign
Fasten your seat belts please
The mood was tense last Thursday as anti-Islamist protesters continued their sit-in in Tahrir Square, demanding that President Mohammed Morsy annul the constitutional declaration he had issued a week before. Liberals and leftists had all come together to adopt a common stance: “No to absolute powers for the president.”They vowed to continue their sit-in until …
Is the Muslim Brotherhoodâs sowing the seeds of its own destruction?
It is not an exaggeration or act of slander to say that the Muslim Brotherhood has always been the fascist alternative to what has been a reactionary regime. In the beginning of the 20th century, it entered into alliances with Egyptâs minor parties against the Wafd, who ruled the country and represented the peopleâs desire …
Under-reported and underage: Early marriage in Egypt
Early marriage in Egypt is a prevalent problem, too often framed within a religious vs. secular debate
The path of fear
Fear is what has made the apolitical stability-junkie stick his head above the parapet.
The proliferation of women initiatives
After the revolution, strolling around the streets of Cairo, Alexandria, Mansoura or other big cities is never boring. Now like never before, you might run into marches, graffiti, posters and video projection that women political parties, groups and activists hold. Women activists have created many initiatives and campaigns to campaign for their rights. Daily News Egypt speaks to some of these emerging initiatives, their goals and activities, evaluates their impact and what it takes for them to reach their aims.
Struggling to end violence against women
NCW commemorates International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Woman attacked outside High Court
Attackers attempted to burn womanâs hair
Men donât cry
Egyptians are prone to touch each other during conversations and often call each other habibi, while dude seems to be as far as foreign men are willing to go.
Anglicans in crisis talks after women bishops rejected
The Church of England will not formally be able to raise the plans again until 2015 when a new General Synod comes in.
Coptic women attacked on the metro
Women wearing niqab cut the hair of two Coptic females
The white gold of Egypt
Egyptian cotton is renowned the world over for its quality. It is transformed into sumptuous bed sheets or into made to measure, button-down shirts and that are worn by the worlds rich and famous are sold in glittering high-end stores for small fortunes. The cotton starts much more humbly though and this time of year …
Judging a woman by her cover
Adel Heine’s weekly column
Egpyt scores low in gender equality
Economics and education at heart of gender gap
Review: Columnists debate political Islam, religious speech and harassment
The expanding phenomenon of sexual harassment attracts the attention a one columnist this week, who cites the large number of police reports against harassers between 10 and 15 years old. Other op-eds explored the rigid religious speech of the imam who preached to Morsy in Assiut on Friday. Back to Al-Ghannouchi of Tunisia and …
Draft constitution under attack
Womenâs group and Abul Fotouhâs new party reject draft document
Administrative prosecution demands clear role in constitution
Representatives from the Administrative Prosecution Club (APC) are meeting on Sunday with the head of the Constituent Assembly.
Jordan’s women celebrate success
Eman Hylooz is a Jordanian Computer Science graduate and a successful young entrepreneur. The company she started in June 2012 is steadily growing and is expected to make a net profit of 114,108 Jordanian Dinars in its first year of operations. Hylooz recalls that the idea for her business start-up first came about when she …
Brotherhood leader defends constitutional article
Sobhy Saleh: Article 36 necessary to prevent gay marriage and gender equality in inheritance laws
Anti-harassment campaigns’ busy week
Minister of Interior takes measures to fight harassment
Protest at presidential palace against controversial article 36
Many fear the controversial Article 36 will set women back and take from their rights
Egyptian women struggle for equality and freedom
Nearly twenty months after last year’s mass uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s women are again taking to the streets, demanding âbread, freedom and social justice,â the same demands made by pro-democracy activists protesting in Tahrir Square during the 25 January revolution. A women’s rally outside the Shura (Consultative) Council headquarters on Qasr Al-Eini …
Morsy tweets from Mars
President Mohamed Morsy recently said on Twitter, ârespect for human rights in all dimensions: faith, culture, social, economic, and political must be a key component in all our workâ. In another, he said, âwe do not have minorities; all Egyptian citizens are treated equally.â I wonder if Mr President has read the news lately or …
Domestic violence: a womanâs permanent scar
Egyptian women share their domestic violence experiences with DNE
Gender equality only within provisions of Shariâa, says constituent assembly
The gender equality article publicly denounced by several political parties and interest groups
Womenâs revolution in the Middle East could be sooner than expected
Saudi women allowed to travel within Gulf without guardiansâ approval, while Iranian woman beats Muslim cleric for criticising her outfit
Afghan women ‘killed in NATO air strike’
Eight women killed, eight others wounded during the air strike
âItâs every woman’s duty to participate in the revolutionâ: women fighters in Syria
Daily News Egypt speaks to female revolutionaries