Weekend suggestion: Learn about the real women of the Egyptian revolution in the Arab Spring.

Egyptian women of the revolution

Egyptian women of the revolution - interviews in English, multimedia, and selected links to f give you hours of insight on rebel women in Arab countries.

The initial motivation behind this self-funded and unaffiliated project  was to reduce false stereotypes of the Arab world and Egyptian women in  particular.
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Egyptian women participated in the uprising that toppled president Hosni  Mubarak. Numerous testimonies, stories and dense footage from the  eighteen days of protests in Tahrir Square during 2011 confirm these  facts. What has happened since then? Where is the Egyptian woman? What  are her gains or losses during the ongoing transition period?  This  web platform enables the women interviewed to answers some of these  questions. It also gives them the opportunity to connect to a wider  audience.
- About Egyptian Women of the revolution

Rasha Kenawy is a librarian who wants to change her country

Words of Women from the Egyptian Revolution

A paralel project, this is a series of video interviews that document a herstorical memory of the Egyptian revolution.

The participation of women in the Egyptian revolution didn't come as a  surprise to us, nor do we view it as an extraordinary phenomenon.

Women  are part of every society and form a part of the social, political and  economical spectrum. It is history that tends in most cases to ostracize  the participation of women and keep them in the shadow while  highlighting the participation of men and attributing leading roles  exclusively to them. This is why we want to document and share  Her-story.

This project intends to shed the light on the  participation of women and to document their experiences as part of the  historical (herstorical) memory of the Egyptian revolution. We also view  it as a tool for women empowerment everywhere and as a resource for  researchers, students and everyone interested in the matter.

- Leil-Zahra Mortada, author of the series of interviews

You can see the whole series of interviews on Leil's youtube channel or on this youtube playlist I have prepared: Words of Women from the Egyptian Revolution

You can also follow news on Egyptian herstory on the Facebook page Herstory Egypt