Posts Tagged ‘ women’s issues ’

The freedom of non-expression

Advocates of banning the face veil want to take away the only choice some women have – the choice to conform.

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The bold and the brilliant

An Arab-American Miss USA may have put Muslim beauty on the western map, but let's also recall all those women of courage and talent.

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Een verbod om te vieren

Het zogenaamde 'burqaverbod' is een vrouwvriendelijke wetvoorstel.

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A ban to celebrate

Belgium's effort to ban the face veil is a statement of female empowerment and a vote against religious fundamentalism.

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We don’t need no segregation

Sexual harassment in Egypt is leading to calls for gender segregation. But is hiding women really the solution?

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In the name of equality

Society is becoming more equal but our surnames – borrowed from fathers and husbands – lag behind. Is there a fairer system?

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What’s love got to do with it?

By Osama Diab For Egyptian marriage offices, the search for profit has replaced the search for a perfect union. June 2009 It was a story of would-be love gone horribly wrong. Alaa El Din Mahmoud went to Al-Alamiya marriage office to find a suitable wife. The office made him a match, Mahmoud proposed and...

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