This episode of the popular talk show 'Hina al-Asima' was dedicated to discussing mass sexual harassment of women protesters in and around Tahrir Square. The host, Lamis Elhadidy, interviews Jeanette Abdel-Alim, a field coordinator for the 'Shuft…
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Pharaonic women going to battle. This famous mural, painted on the walls of Mohamed Mahmoud Street, depicts the gendered dimensions of the Egyptian revolution, drawing on Pharonic imagery. It shows Egyptian women as strong, active and revolutionary.…
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Zeft's iconic Nefertiti and her gas mask, created as a tribute to the role of Egyptian women in the revolution. This image was often used in placards, especially at women's marches and women's events in 2012-2013.
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Video report about a women's march against the rule of SCAF and against the use of violence against women protesters by the military. A few days earlier, a video of soldiers dragging a woman along the ground, exposing her blue bra, went viral and…
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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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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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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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