feminism

features

marriage • 20 min read

Someone sleeping in your bed: On feminism and marriage in Egypt

Ghadeer Ahmed | Ghadeer Ahmed on feminism and marriage in Egypt

18 August 2018

literature • 10 min read

Literary gems: Latifa al-Zayat’s The Open Door

Ismail Fayed | A novel that enmeshes the struggle of ambitious young women with the national independence struggle

31 March 2017

International Women's Day 2017 • 7 min read

Personal status laws – Feminist testimonies from Egypt

Azza Soliman | Azza Soliman explains how Egypt employs a legal approach that restricts women’s rights

14 March 2017

International Women's Day 2017 • 7 min read

Bodily rights – Feminist testimonies from Egypt

Ghadeer Ahmed | I’ve been working on bodily rights since the revolution. Before 2011, I was a really ordinary woman.

11 March 2017

International Women's Day 2017 • 6 min read

Politics as a path – Feminist testimonies from Egypt

Kheloud Gomaa | Like most young men and women of my generation, my involvement in public affairs began with the January

8 March 2017

International Women's Day 2017 • 8 min read

Feminist testimonies from Egypt: A series

Hind Ahmed Zaki | The introduction to our series marking International Women's Day this year

6 March 2017

academia • 7 min read

Ikhtyar: A knowledge hub on gender and sexuality

Heba Afify | On a Saturday morning, seven women and three men sit on bean bags in Ikhtyar’s Abbasseya office

8 December 2015

feminism • 10 min read

Now That’s What I Call Arab Pop (vol 1): The rise of the soul-stealer

Ada Petiwala | Video killed the radio star, but YouTube killed the music video channel, and thousands of video clips

27 July 2015

cinema • 14 min read

Globalizing dissent, Egyptian civil society, and the limits of translation

Ahmed Refaat | Egyptian civil society, after the rollercoaster we all have all been on since the revolution, is rethinking

14 March 2015

More features

Opinion

Labwat

A feminist response to an ‘alternative’ reading

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Mada Masr published an article “An Alternative Reading

7 April 2015

Paul Sedra

Faten Hamama and the ‘Egyptian difference’ in film

The Egyptian difference yielded a cinema in the 1950s and 1960s that was more daring, more complex, and

20 January 2015

News

Aliaa al-Mahdy • 3 min read

Egyptian blogger menaced for nude photo defiling Islamic State flag

26 August 2014

Cartoons

feminism

Girls be like

Andeel | Woman: "Shit... a man!"

15 March 2015

cartoon

Cartoon: Socialization

Andeel | Man 1: "My wife." Man 2: "It's a pleasure."

13 October 2014