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Mahienour al-Masry: Icon of a Revolution

Noha Radwan — 2014-11-12T07:48:00Z

In 2011, Tahrir Square was a space where Egyptian women found empowerment to reject the two models that previously limited their social role. In the Tahrir sit-in, women rejected the pseudo-liberation that invites women to only fight for their individual and personal freedoms, and opted to demand that they become active members of a society that continues to be based on exploitation and injustice, where freedom can only mean the freedom to be exploited, to exploit others and to consume to the best of our abilities.

- IV478 - November 2014 / Women, Egypt, Arab Revolutions

Protesting Injustice

Noha Radwan — 2014-11-12T03:28:03Z

“We do not like prisons, but they do not scare us,” says Mahienour al-Masry, Egyptian lawyer and human rights activist who was serving a three year prison sentence for violating anti-protest laws before her recent release.

- IV478 - November 2014 / Egypt, Arab Revolutions

2011-2014: Egypt's Revolution at Three

Noha Radwan — 2014-04-10T15:02:12Z

ON JANUARY 14 and 15, Egypt held a referendum on a new constitution, drafted following the ouster of president Morsi on July 3rd of last year. The constitution will replace the one promulgated previously, in 2012.

- IV471 - April 2014 / Egypt, Arab Revolutions

Egyptian Women and the Revolution

Noha Radwan — 2014-04-10T15:00:55Z

THE spectacular and significant presence of Egyptian women among the rank and file as well as the leadership of the revolutionary movement since 2011 is a fact. This is in spite of the horrific and often gender-specific forms of repression, including harassment, assault and defamation hurled against them by all agents of the counterrevolution. Just a partial roster of female organizers and spokespeople, let alone participants includes Leila Soueif, Aida Seif al-Dawla, Mona Seif, Nawara Nigm, Mona Mina, Nazli Hussein, Mahinour El-Badrawi…

- IV471 - April 2014 / Women, Egypt, Arab Revolutions