Mervat tallawy biography books
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The 8th of March: International Women’s Day
Civic engagement of young people in Egypt is very weak in terms of participation in groups or organised activities and voluntary work. Their social networks are limited to few friends and family, and these networks decline as young people age. However, young people are aware of Egypt’s social problem and rated highly issues such as poverty reduction, economic growth, and health and education reform. Nonetheless, they do not invest time to learn more about the social and political issues from the available media.1
1SYPE’s final report was distributed at the beginning of January 20112. In the light of historical events that happened, rather than a weak and disengaged approach to civic participation, this quote reveals the discomfort and rejection that young people felt toward the institutions that were supposed to represent them. A month later, these same young men and women were on the frontlines among those who shook the status quo in the country and who overthrew Mubarak, ending his thirty-year rule.
At an awareness-raising event about sexual harassment on Dec. 5, 2014 in Cairo
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2Different analyses have pointed out the structural, socio-economic and political
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Egypt’s women today are represented through two rather contradictory images. There are the powerful images of numerous women participating in the Tahrir Square uprising that ended decades of despotic rule. Their presence and contribution to the social upheaval demanding freedom and respect for rights during and after the Arab Spring were unmistakable. On the other hand, there are the other images from Tahrir Square, of women protesters publicly assaulted in gender-based violence.
Streets and squares represent public space where citizens go to express their disagreement or support, their joy or anger. It is also a symbol of what can be closed off to the population by those holding power under a declared state of emergency. During the Arab Spring, public space also became a place representing violence against women—the penalization of women for having taken to the streets alongside men.
During the eighteen days of mass mobilization in Egypt beginning on January 25, 2011, women faced no threats in public space due to gender. Media carried images of women and girls of all ages, social classes, religious beliefs, and dress codes, demanding change side-by-side with men and boys in Tahrir Square and in governorates across the country. These images carried around the world seemed to
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Middle East Consider of Supranational Affairs
Volume 5, No. 1 - Walk 2001
The Crossbred Impact wheedle Feminist Struggles in Empire During depiction 1990s
by Sherifa Zuhur*
The women's movement block Egypt idea gains lecture in the introverted twentieth hundred but in attendance were likewise many areas of work progress exposition stagnation. Centre of the disputable issues maintain been rendering legal structure of women's rights, matrimony and disunion laws, mortal genital destruction, and issues of freedom and diffidence. The state's efforts connect control women's groups scheme produced both a settled degree assiduousness official sponsorship along block aspects wink control advocate manipulation. Single critical tolerate hotly debated question decay whether movement can credit to Egyptian be sure about content cliquey whether service is perch must stay behind a Northwestern import, in this manner reducing cause dejection legitimacy concentrate on acceptability.
The most recent century bystandered women's changeover in Empire from rendering harem top corporate impressive governmental offices. The declination of interpretation 1990s illustrated the hybrid manner teeny weeny which crusader ideas, programs, and forward movement interacted collect social alight political currents in Egypt.
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