May 10, 2017
Dr. Salwa Elantary Is there gender sensitive economic research in Egypt? My answer is yes. Is there feminist economics in Egypt? My answer is: not yet. […]
April 26, 2017
After years of campaigning, rapists in Jordan will no longer be given a get out of jail free card for marrying their victims to preserve their […]
April 3, 2017
Egyptian-Lebanese visual artist Bahia Shehab has become the first Arab woman to ever receive the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture for her innovative use of Arabic calligraphy […]
April 2, 2017
Mada Masr- I’ve been working on bodily rights since the revolution. Before 2011, I was a really ordinary woman. I wondered when I’d get married, when […]
March 26, 2017
Mada Masr: Over the years of my long journey working with personal status laws, I’ve experienced many changes on the personal and professional levels, as I […]
March 15, 2017
Mada Masr : Like most young men and women of my generation, my involvement in public affairs began with the January 25 revolution in 2011. It […]
March 13, 2017
The 61 session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meets this year within the growing exploitation, marginalization and violence against women because of […]
March 11, 2017
I decided to focus on issues related to workingwomen, because I believe they show the extent to which a society believes in the principles of social justice, […]
March 8, 2017
This year, International Women’s Day is concurrent with a dramatic deterioration of discourse of justice and gender equality, and the rise of conservative retrograde discourses that […]
March 7, 2017
By Mada Masr: When I was asked to write a testimony on working in the women’s rights and gender field, I wanted to talk about what […]
February 27, 2017
By UN WOMEN : In preparation for International Women’s Day, UN Women Egypt launches new print campaign titled “Finding Her” under the umbrella of UN Women’s […]
February 22, 2017
Recent calls by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to reduce Egypt’s escalating divorce rate by ending verbal divorce have been met with resistance from Al-Azhar, feeding into […]