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A strategy to beat the jihadists and make sure they stay beaten must be locally-driven, led by nationalist forces supported by the Sunni population that forms the insurgency’s social base.

The U.S.-led air campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) has scored some points in Syria, weakening ISIS’s oil infrastructure and revenues and keeping the group out of Kobane

the promised U.S. train-and-equip program is unlikely to reverse the nationalists’ losses or jihadists’ gains in northern Syria

air strikes alone, and treating nationalist groups as agents rather than partners, violates this principle

, the U.S. has helped nationalists in the south avoid the fragmentation, infighting, and lawlessness that weakened them and benefited the jihadists in northern Syria

ISIS offers conquered populations the choice between submission – which brings a sense of order and some protection from regime violence – or futile resistance and death

Jabhat al Nusra has driven nationalist forces out of much of their core territory in northern Syria, and ISIS continues to threaten those that remain

Even if the coalition wants to avoid confronting regime forces, it can and should concentrate air strikes closer to ISIS’s front lines with the nationalist insurgency, helping the latter block ISIS advances in cooperation with local Kurdish forces when possible

the United States has excluded them from the coalition military effort

, U.S. interests would be better served by a two-pronged approach in northern and southern Syria, helping nationalist rebels contain ISIS and compete with Jabhat al Nusra for control of the insurgency.

U.S. airstrikes on jihadists have spared the regime’s forces and inadvertently killed Syrian civilians

that Sunni Muslims are under siege by oppressive regional minorities, Iran, and even the United States itself

Ironically, the coalition campaign has contributed to the near-collapse of nationalist forces in northern Syria who, despite their imperfections, were ISIS’s most effective rivals and competed with Jabhat al Nusra for leadership of the insurgency

campaign has had serious local side effects that have undermined the broader, long-term objective of degrading and destroying ISIS in Syria and preventing the Al Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al Nusra, from replacing or thriving alongside ISIS

there is hope

intellectual women today stand in solidarity

woman's marital status is mutually exclusive from her value and right to lead a healthy, fulfilling life of her own.

suffering economy

women

society

spinsterhood

marriage in Egypt really means.

trapped

declining marriage rate in Egypt,

“transforming her into a commodity for the highest bidder.”

family to be the pillar of one's success

pros and cons,

codependence is highly favorable in the Middle Eas

typical Egyptian female's life, is to pursue an auspicious college degree

regarded as a supporter or sidekick,

“...an archaic notion that defines a woman's value by her husband's status”

improve her chances of finding a proper suitor

lifelong purpose of securing a husband.

he standard sequence of events for a typical Egyptian female's life, is to pursue an auspicious college degree (to improve her chances of finding a proper suitor, and assist her future children with their studies), possibly add to her assets by acquiring a mediocre job for a year or two (under the pretext of killing time and elevating her practical wisdom), and eventually fulfill her lifelong purpose of securing a

ones who suffer are those who can't find a “star.”

pressure from three distinctive sources

their rights and full potential, desperately seeking approval before they reach their “expiration date.

“Stepford wife model”,

incompatible matc

transforming her identity, s

driven towards more extreme measures.

parents employing psychological abuse

subject to such scrutiny

generation of women

oblivious t

conforming comes naturally to a lot of women,

On one hand

(parents-peers-society

quoting religious commandments promoting marriage,

coerce their daughters

into submission

threat of eternal damnation

(should she fail to perform this role and still wishes to enjoy her life then she will have indeed committed sacrilege and is a covertly regarded as a disgrace regardless of any other achievement)

peer-pressure;

still under the impression that exceptions do not exist .

25-40

“business marriages”

Egyptians have a problem with evolution

persecute anomalies

educated middle class that crowns the highest rate of unmarried wome

women can hardly take care of themselves and that is the norm.