"The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff……" — 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 begins with us."
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16 Quotes by Shereen El Feki
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Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?
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HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.
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If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.
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The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn’t just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against…
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Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.
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Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which…
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4Shbab has been dubbed Islamic MTV. Its creator, who is an Egyptian TV producer called Ahmed Abu Haiba, wants young…
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Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.
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Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat…
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Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are…
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Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we…
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Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family…
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The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy…
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