We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and… — Shereen El Feki Arabic 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 Age 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… — Shereen El Feki Afford 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,… — Shereen El Feki Arabic Copy Share Image
The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. — Shereen El Feki Alive Copy Share Image
Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic. — Shereen El Feki Epidemic 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,… — Shereen El Feki Arcane 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… — Shereen El Feki After 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… — Shereen El Feki About 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… — Shereen El Feki According 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… — Shereen El Feki Because 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 Arab Copy Share Image
The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn’t just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions… — Shereen El Feki Achievement Copy Share Image
If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book. — Shereen El Feki Book Copy Share Image
My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility,… — Shereen El Feki Among Copy Share Image
The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Just because we got rid of the father of… — Shereen El Feki Ali 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 Abu Copy Share Image
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern. — Shereen El Feki Adapted 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 Arab Copy Share Image
Social change doesn't happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation. — Shereen El Feki Arab 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 Arab Copy Share Image
HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes. — Shereen El Feki Attitude Copy Share Image
Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that… — Shereen El Feki Alexandria Copy Share Image
Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched… — Shereen El Feki Acceptance Copy Share Image
Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we treat them… — Shereen El Feki Change Copy Share Image