As recent British police statistics show, attacks on women in the name of family honor are increasing rapidly.
2,823 incidents were reported by 39 police stations in 2010, and it is estimated that about 500 more occurred in the jurisdictions of (...)
CAIRO: Pakistani actress Veena Malik has sparked another “nude photo controversy,” after appearing on the cover of the latest edition of the glossy men's magazine India FHM, with the initials of Pakistan's feared and powerful intelligence agency on (...)
CAIRO: While several thousand people gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square after Friday prayers to protest against the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), increasing numbers of pro-SCAF protesters attracted attention in Cairo's Abbassiya (...)
CAIRO: While Egypt awaits the delayed publication of results for the opening phase of its first elections since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, protesters gathered in Tahrir Square to remember the over 70 people killed in clashes with police last month (...)
In terms of gender equality, nobody seems to worry about Israel. With Golda Meir as the former prime minister, Tzipi Livni the current opposition leader and its thousands of women soldiers, equality between the sexes seems to have been (...)
CAIRO: On Wednesday November 30, a report by several human right organizations emerged, revealing that hundreds of refugees are tortured by smugglers in the Sinai on their way to Israel.
The smugglers are cooperating with Israeli partners, and (...)
CAIRO: A long queue of women were standing and waiting in front of a polling station in Zamalek, Cairo, to cast their vote for the first post-revolution elections on Monday, November 28.
While the queue curled around streets, optimism and (...)
CAIRO: Samira Ibrahim, one of the 13 Egyptian women who was forced to take a “virginity test” in the military prison in Hikestep after attending a protest in Cairo in March, has to wait till December 27 to hear her verdict.
“The prolongation of (...)
CAIRO: Mona el-Gharib, the Egyptian 25-year-old pregnant student at al-Azhar University and wife of a Syrian dissident, who was reported to be kidnapped in Cairo on Friday afternoon, was found Saturday afternoon in a suburb of Cairo.
Thaer (...)
CAIRO: In Brooklyn, New York, a group of Jewish women are calling to join Hatzolah, a volunteer emergency medical service organization that serves mostly Jewish communities around the world. They are currently stuffed with men only.
As most (...)
CAIRO: On Monday, November 21, Myriam Achkar, a 28-year old female who lived in Sahel Alma, Lebanon, was murdered on her 20-minute walk home from praying at the town's church.
After being sexually attacked on her way, she was murdered by Fathi El (...)
TIMELINE:
October 2006
Shocking sexual attacks during Muslim feast of Eid
National and international public awareness about sexual attacks in Egypt more or less started October 24, 2006, during the Muslim feast of Eid, when online activists (...)
CAIRO: Mona El-Gharib, an Egyptian 25-year-old pregnant student at al-Azhar University and wife of a Syrian dissident was reported to be kidnapped in Cairo on Friday afternoon.
Thaer El-Nashef, her Syrian husband, was informed of the kidnapping (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian security forces attacked a sit-in in front of the cabinet building on Saturday, running over 19-year-old Ahmad Sorour with a police vehicle. The young man was dead upon arrival to the hospital.
Meanwhile, an amateur video from (...)
CAIRO: After Caroline Sinz, a French reporter for public TV station France 3, became the third women sexual assaulted while reporting from Egypt's Tahrir Square on Thursday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) advised the media on Thursday night that (...)
CAIRO: The current sexual assaults against female journalists and female protesters in Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square in recent days, sheds light once again on the constant sexual assaults women are facing across Egypt and their fight against the (...)
After the resignation of the Cabinett under Essam Sharaf on Monday, Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) approached former Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri on Thursday to form a new government.
Ganzouri accepted the request of Field (...)
25 November
Who is Kamal Ganzouri, Egypt's new Prime Minister?
After the resignation of the Cabinet under Essam Sharaf on Monday, former Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri accepted the request of Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi, head of the ruling (...)
A protest in solidarity with Egyptian protesters in Tahrir Square is to take place in London on Saturday.
The march from London's Edgware Road to the Egyptian Embassy runs under the heading “Justice in Egypt” and is planned from (...)
CARIO: The ongoing unrest in Egypt has sent the Egyptin pound to its weakest point against the US dollar since January 2005.
The mass protests against the military army have wracked the Egyptian economy, amid an already rocky business (...)
CAIRO: While Egyptians are converging on Cairo's Tahrir Square in response to a call for a million-man march to protest against the country's military rulers, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood officially declared it will not take part in the march.
The (...)
As an act of solidarity with Egypt's Aliya el-Mahdy, 40 Israeli women posed for a nearly naked photo in protest of limited expression in Egypt, however, not fully displaying their intimate parts for the camera.
“Girls, let's give the world a good (...)