Cairo University employee Nourhan Hussein, 29, was shot dead on university grounds at the hands of her former partner on Wednesday, 27 September. A brief statement released on the Egyptian Interior Ministry’s Facebook account detailed that the killer was found in the northwestern governorate of Matrouh and took his own life before he could be
Egypt has executed a man who stabbed a university student to death in 2022 for refusing his marriage proposal, in a case that sparked public outrage and protests against femicides. The mother of murdered university student Nayera Ashraf attends the first trial session at the Mansoura courthouse on June 26. Photo: Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty…
Recent high-profile cases of women being killed in Jordan and Egypt for rejecting marriage proposals have sparked widespread anger about femicides and fueled a growing debate about women's rights and safety.