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Who is Marwa Elselehdar? The woman accused of the Suez Canal obstruction

Who is Marwa Elselehdar? The woman accused of the Suez Canal obstruction   The consequences of the Suez Canal blockage has been reported to cost billions of dollars. Unfortunately, Marwa Elselehdar has been used as the ‘scapegoat’ for this global trading halt. One thing though, she claims she was not even present on the ship. So, who is the woman taking the hit for this economically damaging event? The media went into a frenzy on Tuesday March 23rd, when news hit that Ever Given, a Golden-class container ship, was blocking one of the world’s busiest trade routes, the Suez Canal.

Egypt s First Female Ship Captain Blamed For Suez Blockage

Egypt s First Female Ship Captain Blamed For Suez Blockage
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Egyptian female captain subject to fake news campaign blaming her for blockage

Egyptian female captain subject to fake news campaign blaming her for blockage We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Abbie Cheeseman Save Normal text size Advertisement Egypt’s first female ship captain says she was subject to a fake news campaign blaming her for grounding the Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal, despite at the time working on a ship that was hundreds of kilometres away. Marwa Elselehdar was working as a first mate in command of the Aida IV in Alexandria when the 220,000 ton Ever Given got stuck, blocking one of the world’s busiest shipping routes for six days.

Rude to Assume a Woman Was Responsible for the Stuck Boat

Rude to Assume a Woman Was Responsible for the Stuck Boat Claire Lampen © Getty Images Sexism at sea? Getty Images Well, well, well, what do we have here? An obvious smear by the (evidently sexist) wind lobby, I must assume. How else to explain this scurrilous rumor that a woman actually engineered the recent stuck-boat calamity? Marwa Elselehdar, Egypt’s first female ship captain, tells the BBC she wasn’t even anywhere near the Suez Canal when the Ever Given gusted sideways and wedged itself diagonally across one of the world’s more important shipping routes. And yet when she checked her phone shortly after the news of the beaching broke, she says she was “shocked” to see a headline pinning the blame on her. Rude!

Fake news campaign blames female pioneer for Suez ship accident

Egypt’s first female ship’s captain says she was subject to a fake news campaign blaming her for grounding the Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal, despite working on a ship that was hundreds of kilometres away at the time. Marwa Elselehdar was working as a first mate on the Aida IV in Alexandria when the 200,000-tonne Ever Given got stuck, blocking one of the world’s busiest shipping routes. The 29-year-old is a figure celebrated by feminists in Egypt. In 2015 she became both the youngest and the first female Egyptian captain to navigate the newly expanded Suez Canal.

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