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title: "1 Questioned Quotes By Shereen El Feki"
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> [Growing up, I came to love Egypt and respect Islam, but I never thought to go beyond the surface. Back in Canada, many of my father's Egyptian friends questioned his decision not to raise his only child more strictly in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/growing-up-i-came-to-love-egypt-and-respect-islam-but-i-never-thought/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

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## More by Shereen El Feki

> [We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/we-were-the-outliers-my-mother-was-the-only-western-woman-khawagayya/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

> [ Why, in our age of science, \[do\] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition? ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/why-in-our-age-of-science-do-we-still-have-laws-and-policies-which/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

> [In Egypt, where my research is focused, I have seen plenty of trouble in and out of the citadel. There are legions of young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/in-egypt-where-my-research-is-focused-i-have-seen-plenty-of-trouble/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

> [Growing up, I came to love Egypt and respect Islam, but I never thought to go beyond the surface. Back in Canada, many of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/growing-up-i-came-to-love-egypt-and-respect-islam-but-i-never-thought/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

> [The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/the-patriarchy-is-alive-and-well-in-egypt-and-the-wider-arab-world/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

> [Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/where-you-criminalize-people-living-with-hiv-or-those-at-greatest/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/the-law-can-seem-remote-arcane-the-stuff-of-specialists-but-it-isn-t/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/egypt-once-a-melting-pot-of-peoples-classes-cultures-and-religions/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

> [Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/part-of-my-job-at-the-economist-was-writing-about-hiv-and-that/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/fulla-is-the-arab-world-s-answer-to-barbie-now-according-to/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

> [Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/some-countries-have-good-laws-laws-which-could-stem-the-tide-of-hiv/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/i-m-egyptian-and-muslim-but-i-grew-up-in-the-west-far-from-my-arab/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/the-achievement-of-tahrir-square-wasn-t-just-its-grand-political/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

> [If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/if-you-really-want-to-know-yourself-start-by-writing-a-book/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shereen-el-feki/my-mother-s-family-is-christian-her-father-was-a-baptist-lay-preacher/)

[Shereen El Feki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shereen-el-feki/)

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