Awesome article about the recent Russian bombing of Syria and how it affects the big picture. This article has some time-lapse maps with territories highlighted on it. It is very helpful in better understanding how current events are affecting the territories being controlled.
After an international agreement involving Iran the nature of their cyber program has shifted. The change was from flagrant cyber attacks to cripple other nations and business' computer networks to cyber espionage, focusing on infiltrating and accessing documents relevant to Iran. Due to the softer nature it is harder for nations to respond with retaliation or outrage to Iran's cyber offensive.
IBM has been doing business in Egypt in 1954, and we've continued to invest in the country and support our clients ever since. We're committed to helping Egypt develop a world-class tech infrastructure, even through the turbulent changes in government of the past few years.
Before the deadly raid of his home by the US Special Forces team, Osama Bin Laden was reported to have been notified of the early movements of our present day ISIS. The group was separating itself from Al-Qaeda and murdering Muslims who were not waging jihad.
Interesting article covering one of Lebanon's refugee camps for Palestinians called Ain-al-Hilweh , providing security and free healthcare until now. UNRWA is suffering from a deficit of more than $100m last year trying to maintain this refugee camp.
hero and a national treasure in the eyes of Egyptians.
Women saw her as an inspiration in their struggle for equal rights
women followed her exam
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Egyptian women made advances in equality throughout the period of the monarchy
22 Arab countries for discrimination in law, sexual harassment and the paucity of female political representation
Gamal Abdel Nasser, women continued to advance, achieving positions in universities, Parliament and the senior judiciary.
Egypt’s tradition of moderate Islam recognized women’s rights and encouraged women to study and work.
promote female genital mutilation
woman’s job is to please her husband and provide offspring.
cover her body completely and may not study,
women started to wear the
cannot even leave the house without her husband’s permission.
control women’s sexuality.
Wahhabism has influenced all Islamic societies and movements, including Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.
many Egyptian women still went without head scarves, wearing modern Western-style dress, yet incidents of sexual harassment were rare. Now, with the spread of the hijab, harassm
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83 percent of women interviewed had been subjected to sexual harassment at least once, and that 50 percent experienced it on a daily basis.
When ultraconservative doctrine dehumanizes women, reducing them to objects, it legitimizes acts of sexual aggression against them.
until 2005 that sexual harassment became an organized form of retribution against Egyptian women
The security apparatus paid thugs, known as “beltagiya,” to gang up on a woman attending a demonstration, tear off her clothes and molest her.
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Tahrir Square in Cairo, soldiers pulled a female protester’s clothes off and dragged her along the ground, stomping on her with their boots
victim of the attack became an icon for Egyptian women
mocked the victim, blaming her for not staying
During the revolution, millions of Egyptian women went out and bravely faced snipers’ bullets
in the home
10 female members of Parliament out of a total of 508
President Mohamed Morsi’s later attempt to rewrite the Egyptian Constitution would also have removed the only female judge on the Supreme Constitutional Court.
They tried to overturn the law punishing doctors who carried out female genital mutilation, and refused to consider the marriage of minors as a form of human trafficking by claiming that Islam permitted a girl as young as 10 years old to be married.
The revolutionaries are fighting for equality
trying to strip women of their political and social rights and make them subject to men’s autho
This article discusses how women have been treated differently since the beginning of time. Things began to change once women began to stand up for themselves in protests.
On Wednesday, February 24, the Republican dominated House Judiciary Committee voted 17-10 along party lines to require the State Department to take action to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization. The move would be welcomed by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the United Arab Emirates who have been waiting for such an action to occur. Many believe the Muslim Brotherhood is what is preventing democracy in the Middle East and have a powerful stronghold that greatly affects these changes in the region.