Sadat and Fifty are very successful mahragan musicians. This song is encouraging men not to sexually harass women. In 2013, there was a high incidence of mass sexual assault directed against female protesters. Moreover, a 2013 study by UN Women,…
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The video shows Egyptian military police beating a woman during the Cabinet sit-in during December 2011. The video went viral and caused outrage in Egypt and beyond. The woman, whose identity was never revealed, has been dubbed the 'blue bra woman'…
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Yasmin Baramawy speaks about her ordeal of being gang raped for around 2 hours after attending a protest in Tahrir Square in 2012. This is one of the first times that a survivor of rape speaks publicly and on TV.
Mass sexual assault against women…
Mass sexual assault against women…
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Grafitti depicting organised mass sexual assaults against women protesters in and around Tahrir Square in 2013.
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This cartoon criticises the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) (also termed Female Genital Cutting).
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A photograph of graffiti in Cairo celebrating the bravery of Samira Ibrahim, who raised a court case against the doctor who performed a so-called virginity test whilst she was under arrest in a military prison in March 2011. She is contrasted with…
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Photograph of graffiti seen on a street in Cairo in February 2012. 'Sitt al-banat' (or, 'the best of girls') refers to the female protester who was filmed being dragged across the street and beaten by security personnel in December 2011.
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This is a video of the band Bent al-Masarwa performing live. The band made their first album in 2015, after meeting at a creative writing workshop organized by feminist organization Nazra for Feminist Studies. Their songs are based on women's real…
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The song and video clip depict women's everyday experiences of sexual harassment and highlight the problem of society blaming the victim.
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The cartoon was drawn in defiance of the alarming increase in sexual assaults against women protesters in 2013. It was particularly inspired by the testimony of Yasmin El-Baramawy, who was gang raped near Tahrir Square during protests in November…
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