At the Goethe-Institutʹs Tashweesh Festival, artists and intellectuals from North Africa, Europe and the Middle East meet to discuss stereotypical gender images. By Caren Miesenberger
Honor Killings, #MeToo And The Future For Egyptian Women Egyptian women pass by Ramadan lanterns in Cairo, in May 2018. - Gehad Hamdy/DPA/ZUMA
Women in Egypt have definitively broken the silence around sexual violence but what comes next? 2021-04-13
CAIRO About two weeks ago, Dalia s doorman, landlord, and neighbors at least three men in total suspecting her of having sex or some kind of sexual interaction with a guest, forced their way into her apartment in the Cairo neighborhood of Salam, beat her and either threw her out of the window or terrified her so much that she jumped. The National Council for Women, missing the point, said in its press release that Dalia s body was found fully clothed. Newspapers reported that the prosecution had ordered a vaginal examination of her corpse.
The power of stories and moving images
The four short films produced as part of the Women Make Film project are well worth seeing. They grapple with the ghosts that haunt Iraq: the horrors of IS rule, outdated gender roles and the aftermath of dictatorship. Christopher Resch spoke to the filmmakers
A taxi driver glances disparagingly in the rear-view mirror at the boy and his mother in the back seat. The boy s naïve questions not only reveal what has happened, but are also incredibly painful. Mama, why do people say that papa is with IS? Mama, why did the principal throw us out of the school? Mama, are we going to go to school again tomorrow? – No.
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