My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father.… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share
Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition? — Shereen El Feki Copy Share
In Egypt, where my research is focused, I have seen plenty of trouble in and out of the citadel. There are legions of young… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share
Growing up, I came to love Egypt and respect Islam, but I never thought to go beyond the surface. Back in Canada, many of… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share
Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic. — Shereen El Feki Copy Share
The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share
Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share
Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share
Fulla is the Arab world's answer to Barbie. Now, according to proponents of the clash of civilizations, Barbie and Fulla occupy these completely separate… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share
Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share
I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share
The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn’t just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions wearing down… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share
My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share
