The first plane to cross the finish line was piloted by a 26-year-old woman named Lotfia El Nadi, Egypt’s first female aviator.
Egypt's Trouble With Women - The New York Times - 2 views
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father had rejected the idea, but she did not despa
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“I learned to fly because I love to be free.”
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'Cyber-activism': Kenya, Egypt not in same league - 0 views
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On the prism of democracy, Kenya and Egypt are light-years apart, but cyber-activists and sections of Kenya's political class are drawing false parallels between the two and nudging for protests in Kenya.Kenya's cyber-space reveals fragments of the country's activists and political class are pondering using social media to emulate the Egyptian-style protest perhaps to coincide with the third anniversary of the 2008 post-election mayhem.
Why We Can't Stay Silent on Germany's Mass Sex Assaults - The Daily Beast - 0 views
The Arabic gang-rape 'Taharrush' phenomenon which has spread to Europe | Daily Mail Online - 0 views
The lessons of Palmyra: Islamic state and iconoclasm in the era of clickbait - 2 views
In Egypt, treading the path of civil rights - 0 views
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These opportunities come once in a generation, social movements whose cause is so manifestly just, and whose potential is so transformative, that they rise above the clutter of ordinary politics. The civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez and others inspired a generation as it overcame Klansmen, brutal sheriffs and growers' thugs.
Algerian War: 1954 to 1962 - 1 views
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FLN headquarters in Nasser's Egypt calling on Muslims in Algeria to join in a national struggle for the "restoration of the Algerian state, sovereign, democratic, and social, within the framework of the principles of Islam."
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the French relented and on 20 March 1956 gave Tunisia complete independence.
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February 1956, Morocco acquired limited home rule, and on March 2nd France and Morocco signed an agreement giving Morocco complete independence.
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