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How Egypt's Ironwoman has made it safer for women to run around Cairo's streets


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“Happy 5.30!” This is Amany Khalil’s motto when she leads her running group, Zamalek Early Risers (ZERs), down the empty moonlit streets to downtown Cairo every Monday morning.
The group includes men and women, marathoners and newbies, ranging in age from their twenties to fifties.
Khalil – who has run 23 marathons and became the first Egyptian woman over 50 to complete a full Ironman
Triathlon in 2016 – is not one to shy away from breaking barriers.
But when she first started running in the Egyptian capital’s streets more than 20 years ago as a woman on her own, she says in her 2018 Ted Talk “it was like showing up at a funeral wearing a party hat”. ....

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