Abu Quote 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…

— Shereen El Feki

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

— 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…

— 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…

— Shereen El Feki

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

— Shereen El Feki

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Shereen El Feki