Browse Items (218 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map of 5 Sort by: TitleCreatorDate Added Untitled Heba Khalifa I choose my path. I want to make different choices than my mother made, but her voice still resonates in my ears, "See, I told you, you will not be able to do it." Heba Khalifa Untitled Heba Khalifa As I am about to get married, I fear being bound by the institution of marriage, repeating my mum's history, losing my independence, losing the spark and living a life that revolves around housekeeping. Heba Khalifa My mother wants me to do everything exactly like her, according to her way. It makes me feel that she sees me only as an extension for her body. Heba Khalifa Untitled Heba Khalifa My grandmother made curtains by hand. They were suitable for her. But not for me. Heba Khalifa "If we are going to marry, you need to get plastic surgery." Heba Khalifa They called me "mother of the unborn" in my hometown because I am sterile. I tried a lot and waited for many years. In my lifetime, the only birth I witnessed was my own. Heba Khalifa Untitled Heba Khalifa In my house, I cannot go out as I want, cannot call whomever I want, am not allowed to learn music. I feel I am just something on the shelf at home. Heba Khalifa I have had horrible headaches since I was seven. At my new school, mates rejected the dark skinned intruder who thought about things differently. I hated being different – inside and out. Heba Khalifa I cannot see well, and my friends used to call me "the girl with four eyes." As a result I grew up feeling I can neither see nor be seen by the world. Heba Khalifa Untitled Heba Khalifa I wait for my period. Although it is something I dislike very much, having my period means that I am not pregnant and I won't have to go through another abortion here in Egypt. I don't even want to imagine this situation in this country. It scares me to death. Heba Khalifa Young girls in the poor district of Manial Sheiha Gary Calton Young anti-government protesters in Tahrir Square prepare to move off to a larger demo several miles away on the hills at Mokattam Gary Calton Women show their strength of feeling against the government of President Morsi outside the offices of the ministry for women‘s affairs which was torched during the 2011 revolution Gary Calton Wedding dresses in a store in Giza are only for wealthier families who can afford to allow their daughters to marry a little later although there is still enormous pressure on girls to marry young and to think of a life inside the home rather than outside of it Gary Calton Rasmia Ahmed Emam was 17 when she was married to a 50-year-old stranger. Not an uncommon fate for an Egyptian woman but Rasmia‘s family had been conned. She had been married to a Saudi sex tourist who left her and the country after two weeks. „My life is over. Everyone thinks I am a prostitute and my only option in life is to become one. But I will not do that.“ Gary Calton Karema, 19, who was forced to undergo female genital circumcision aged 13. Her mother bribed a doctor to perform the procedure without anaesthetic. Although both FGM and underage marriage are presently illegal, they are widespread across the country. An estimated three quarters of females aged from 12 upwards have been subjected to FGM. The present government has indicated FGM is a „family matter“ and proposes to reduce the legal age of marriage from 18 to 13 Gary Calton Inside the Ezbet Khairallah district. Young women are scared that their rights will be stripped away by conservative forces in post-revolution Egypt Gary Calton Ice-cream seller in Manial Sheiha. Few women are allowed out of their houses without their husband‘s permission and behind many doors are dozens of tragic tales of young women whose lives have been destroyed by the effects of early marriage. Gary Calton For the wealthier women of Cairo marriage comes later but they fear the scrapping of the legal marriage limit will start to affect their lives and rights too. A newly married couple wait to have their wedding photographs taken in a studio in Giza Gary Calton Daily life in Manial Sheiha Gary Calton Cairo‘s Manial Sheiha district Gary Calton As clashes between the two sides begin to break out near Mokattam mosque, anti-government protesters pick up stones to hurl at the opposing crowds Gary Calton Anti-government supporters clash with Muslim Brotherhood supporters (in foreground) during a demonstration at the Brotherhood Mokattam HQ Gary Calton Anti-government protesters run as shots ring out and missiles fly during an ambush on the marchers by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. The demonstrators were on their way to join a bigger protest outside the Muslim Brotherhood‘s new HQ in Mokattam Gary Calton Anti-government protesters pick their way through a dust storm en route to a demonstration outside the Muslim Brotherhood HQ in a housing district at Mokattam Gary Calton An anti-government protester yells in defiance as teargas pellets are fired into the crowd by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood during clashes at Mokattam in Cairo Gary Calton A 12-year-old girl at a women‘s group in Manial Sheiha, run by the charity Plan Egypt. At the moment she faces a grim future of poverty, underage marriage and female circumcision. Women‘s groups in Egypt hoped the 2011 revolution might bring positive changes to women‘s rights but now fear the opposite is true Gary Calton Mahmoud et sa mère Denis Dailleux Aïd et sa mère Denis Dailleux Ali et sa mère Denis Dailleux Mohamed et sa mère Denis Dailleux Boutros et sa mère Denis Dailleux Mohamed et sa mère Denis Dailleux Bilal et sa mère Denis Dailleux Mahmoud et sa mère Denis Dailleux Islam et sa mère Denis Dailleux Ramy et sa mère Denis Dailleux Emad et sa mère Denis Dailleux Amr, Mohamed et leur mère Denis Dailleux Mahmoud et sa mère Denis Dailleux Michael et sa mère Denis Dailleux Hussein et sa mère Denis Dailleux Ahmed et sa mère Denis Dailleux Shaban et sa mère Denis Dailleux Sarwat et sa mère Denis Dailleux Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map of 5 Sort by: TitleCreatorDate Added Output Formats atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
