Egypt

Looking at Aliaa Elmahdy’s act of protest through posting naked photos of herself on her blog, this paper studies the debates that followed. By examining articles that were written about Femen, nudity, Muslim women, and body politics, this Paper shows that the debates ran the risk of stabilizing feminism within static dogmatic beliefs.

The campaign Combating Violence Against Women “Life without Violence and Discrimination is Possible” has been started by ten women organizations and hundreds of activists in eight Arab countries in cooperation with Heinrich Böll Foundation. Young directors were targeted as agents of change using alternative social media to lobby for combating violence against women in Egypt. See one of these produced short films here.