Growing up, I came to love Egypt and respect Islam, but I never thought to go beyond the surface. Back in Canada,… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel'… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
4Shbab has been dubbed Islamic MTV. Its creator, who is an Egyptian TV producer called Ahmed Abu Haiba, wants young people to… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which are neither… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
I'm half Egyptian, and I'm Muslim. But I grew up in Canada, far from my Arab roots. Like so many who straddle… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic. — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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