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A young women talks about her experience while being a tourist in Egypt. She experiences constant harassment while walking to tourist sites and comments on how it made her feel "cheap".

A young women talks about her experience while being a tourist in Egypt. She experiences constant harassment while walking to tourist sites and comments on how it made her feel "cheap".

HANNAH SOMERVILLE talks about how even though there has been a womens movement, women are still being harassed. She talks about her own experience and how she even considered moving apartment to lessen the harassment.

HANNAH SOMERVILLE talks about how even though there has been a womens movement, women are still being harassed. She talks about her own experience and how she even considered moving apartment to lessen the harassment.

Filmmakers are filming a film that talks about the sexual harassment issue that occurring in Egypt. Ninety-nine percent of women in Egypt have faced sexual harassment. It also shares the common misbeliefs that people believe due to American news. 

Alex Owumi played basketball for Gaddafi and explains his experience watching people get beaten if they did not win. He talks about his experience during the uprising in Libya and how it has changed his life forever.

Women in Egypt experience arranged marriages because there is a stigma around unmarried women. The older a women is the worse the stigma.

Women in Egypt experience arranged marriages because there is a stigma around unmarried women. The older a women is the worse the stigma.

This artifact is from Syrian writer, Mohamed Raouf Bachir, and discusses the the feelings a refugee experiences when fleeing from the hellish Middle East into a place where there is uncertainty of acceptance, but somewhere that still feels like freedom.

Willie Morris [biography], the British ambassador from 1968 to 1972 talks about his experience working in Saudi and corruption

This article, from the Times, discusses the transition seen in Saudi Arabia after the death of Kind Abdullah. It specifically discusses the story of a woman, named Loujain Al Hathloul, who drove illegally and was stopped by police. The police took her passport and refused to let her drive. She took to Twitter about the experience as she sat for about a day in her car until she was arrested.

This article mentions how the sexual harassment experienced in Egypt is a problem for all women. Women who are from the country and foreign women experience harassment, because they are women not because of where they are from.

in this video that I found, abu zayed talks about his childhood and experience

Egypt's 2011 uprising was often referred to as a youth revolution, but two years after longtime President Hosni Mubarak was forced out of office, many in the younger generation say that they are not represented by the Brotherhood or any other oppositional forces. The demands of the revolution the youth led have not been met. Conditions are worsening. The youth are increasingly disillusioned with the idea of political hope and feel like leaving the country may be their best option for fulfillment. The youth feel their is a large disparity between their ideas and demands and the political desires of the older generation who is favored for their wisdom, experience, and resources. Although the youth have popular support, they lack the resources to successfully run a political race and are therefore left out of the process of change. This means it is left up to the older generation of politicians to appease their demands, if only to prevent more protests.

This article is about the anonymous artist who has created the Sad Panda, a character who is splashed onto the walls of Egypt to depict the experience of loss and mourning for those who have given up their lives.

The video is about individuals who are campaigning against female genital utilization (FGM). The women who does the procedure has no medical license or experience. She said the mother doesn't care of the girl dies. All she wants is for her to "cleansed". 

Women recall their experiences on divorce. Terms such as embarrassing and traumatizing are used. This a great article that displays how controlled women are in marriages that they do not want to be in and what happens after the divorce.

A team of trekkers finished their 57-day journey across the deserts of Oman through Saudi Arabia, to Doha. They wanted to recreate the experience which was achieved by British civil servant and Arabist Bertram Thomas, who completed the journey in 49 days.

This article gives insight on how the Muslim Brotherhood misjudged the support they had in Egypt, which assisted in the downfall of the Brotherhood. Another concept brought up was their actual lack of understanding and experience of governing a large population.

Rumors are beginning to stir among anti-ISIS groups that the terror group is beginning to experience unrest and a stir in the ranks. Dutch ISIS members were said to be slaughtered by local ISIS command in Iraq. The story is said to be untrue but the question remains as to why did this story surface in the fist place.