Ibrahim [Samira Ibrahim, Egyptian woman who successfully sued the army for "subjecting her to a 'virginity test'"] may not be aware that the humiliating virginity test she was subjected to last March in the Hykestep military prison was not the first of its...
Posts tagged "egypt"
Women’s Bodies, Mediating the Revolution
From Khaled Fahmy's article, "Women, Revolution, and Army" in the Egyptian Independent:
Our Daily Links: While You Were Eating Fruitcake Edition
Worth the Wait: It may have taken 1,500 years but the Talmud finally has an index.
Early Adopters: I've long said that religion and porn are the two first groups to adopt new technologies. In "Christianity and the Future of the Book" at The New Atlantis Alan Jacobs writes, "Religious communities have been the...
Liberalism Killing the Copts
Reuters reports that Egypt's Coptic Christians are receiving an unprecedented amount of foreign support; subsequently they fear "a backlash from Muslims who could resent special attention to a minority at a time when all Egyptians are suffering economic hardship and political uncertainty." Which reminds us of a provocative article by Marc Michael that Al Jazeera posted in November. Of...
Daily Links: Don’t Call It a Comeback
Media in the West love the narrative that godless, Communist Russia eventually fell to the relentless, holy hand of capitalism (to be specific, the one at the end of Ronald Reagan's right arm). Now that communism is gone, lookee there! Russians are flocking to view Our Lady's Belt.
Visitors are required, because of the outrageously...
Give Us This Day Our Daily Links
Minority Rights are a "Special Privilege;" Next to Newt's Godliness; Tebowing the Spotlight; Catholic Attitude; Because Your Military Rulers Said So; The Sui Juris of Citizenship
Muslim Drag
Amy Levin: What would Muslim drag look like? Something like this? Yesterday, the AHA Foundation shared a link on their twitter account to an article titled “Egyptian Women’s Group Calls on Men to Try the Veil.” Aliaa El Mahdy, an Egyptian university student, created a facebook page called “Resounding Cries,” which asks Egyptian...
Seeing God in Tahrir: Ethics of the Revolution
by Yasmin Moll
Many commentators both inside and outside Egypt have focused on the anticipated role of the Muslim Brotherhood in a post-Mubarak Egypt. In many of these analyses, the Brotherhood is used as a metonym for the projected role of Islam in the public sphere. However, while the Brotherhood will certainly play a formative role...
Women’s Rights in Egypt
"The Mubarak regime is more dangerous to women than the Muslim Brotherhood." Listen to renown feminist Dr. Nawal El Saadawi and NYU graduate student Yasmin Moll on the Brian Lehrer show on NPR.
You can read today's exclusive article by El Saadawi at Women's Media Center here.
