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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

Egyptian women

Illustrative: In this June 14, 2014 photo, Egyptian women hold banners during a protest against sexual harassment in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
August 10, 2022, 4:28 pm
Second campus femicide in 2 months sparks outrage in Egypt
Police arrest male student on suspicion of murdering female classmate after she allegedly rejected his advances
By AFP
Egyptian female judge Radwa Helmi Ahmad sits on her first court hearing at the State Council in the capital Cairo, on March 5, 2022. (Samer ABDALLAH / AFP)
March 6, 2022, 7:02 pm
In first, female judge presides over hearing in Egyptian top court
Radwa Helmi, one of 98 women appointed to State Council last year, becomes the first to take a seat on its bench
By AFP
Egypt's first female ship's captain, Marwa Elselehdar. (Instagram Photo/@marwa.elselehdar)
April 5, 2021, 6:45 am
Egypt’s first female ship captain says she was falsely blamed for Suez crisis
Marwa Elselehdar was hundreds of miles from the canal when accident took place, but online rumors quickly spread saying she was responsible
By ToI Staff
Amal Fathy (Facebook)
September 30, 2018, 8:27 am
Egyptian woman sentenced for video criticizing sexual harassment
Amal Fathi, 33, convicted of spreading fake news after complaining of harassment by bank guard, is fined $560 and given two-year suspended jail sentence
By AFP
Egyptian actress Yasmin Raeis speaks during an AFP interview in the capital Cairo, on March 1, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)
March 12, 2018, 3:28 pm
Egypt filmmakers defy taboos of conservative society
From mockery of the government ban on passionate kisses to TV series on unmarried women seeing men, young generation trying to bring back ‘golden age’ of Egyptian cinema
By AFP
Egyptian television hostess Doaa Salah (YouTube screenshot/Al-Nahar TV)
November 4, 2017, 10:56 am
Egyptian TV host jailed for speaking of pregnancy outside marriage
Doaa Salah sentenced to 3 years in prison for suggesting a woman could marry only to conceive, then divorce
By AFP
A sculpture, entitled Mother of the Martyr, depicts a slender peasant woman, representing Egypt, with a helmeted soldier standing behind her, Sohag, Egypt, August 2016. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Ahmed)
September 5, 2016, 7:59 pm
‘Sexual harassment’ sculpture faces backlash in Egypt
Provincial governor orders changes after social media criticism of memorial to fallen soldiers
By Hamza Hendawi
Egyptian TV host Khadija Khatab (YouTube screenshot)
August 18, 2016, 10:36 am
Egypt TV suspends ‘overweight’ female hosts
Eight presenters told they must diet and restore ‘appropriate appearance,’ causing local outcry
By ToI Staff
An ad placed by a sub-franchise of Gold’s Gym in Egypt, for which Gold's Gym apologized, August 17, 2016 (Facebook)
August 18, 2016, 8:28 am
Gold’s Gym ends Egypt branch contract over body-shaming ad
Cairo gym runs ad showing a pear with message saying ‘This is no shape for a girl,’ prompting condemnation
By AFP
Egyptian women. (AP/Amr Nabil/File)
May 31, 2016, 2:08 am
Egypt investigates teenage girl’s death during circumcision
Female genital mutilation, banned in 2008, remains widespread in the country, according to UN researchers
By AFP
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