Browse Items (218 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map of 5 Sort by: TitleCreatorDate Added 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 "If we are going to marry, you need to get plastic surgery." Heba Khalifa Ahmed et sa mère Denis Dailleux Aïd et sa mère Denis Dailleux Aida Lina Geoushy Ali et sa mère Denis Dailleux Amal Lina Geoushy Amélie Losier Photographer Amr, Mohamed et leur mère Denis Dailleux Amria Mortada / 33 years old, I'm a tomboy. I feel it's more suitable for my character. I don't have any dresses, but every now and then I dream of wearing one and I end up becoming afraid of doing so because I fear the streets. So, I decided not to buy any. I bought a pair of pants, which seemed very normal to me but I was surprised when I got harassed verbally while wearing them. I never understood why this happened, but I was annoyed and was even shocked to know that it happened because of the colour of my pants. In the street, a girl becomes like merchandise, people are allowed to look at her as if she is displayed in a shop. Honestly, I'm still traumatized of what happened to me while wearing these pants and I decided since then never to wear it again. I I don't have the energy to stand against those who harass me. Roger Anis Amria Mortada / 33 years old, I'm a tomboy. I feel it's more suitable for my character. I don't have any dresses, but every now and then I dream of wearing one and I end up becoming afraid of doing so because I fear the streets. So, I decided not to buy any. I bought a pair of pants, which seemed very normal to me but I was surprised when I got harassed verbally while wearing them. I never understood why this happened, but I was annoyed and was even shocked to know that it happened because of the colour of my pants. In the street, a girl becomes like merchandise, people are allowed to look at her as if she is displayed in a shop. Honestly, I'm still traumatized of what happened to me while wearing these pants and I decided since then never to wear it again. I I don't have the energy to stand against those who harass me. Roger Anis 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 Angie, Maadi, Cairo Amélie Losier 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 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 supporters clash with Muslim Brotherhood supporters (in foreground) during a demonstration at the Brotherhood Mokattam HQ 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 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 Azza Lina Geoushy Azziza Lina Geoushy Badreya Lina Geoushy Bilal et sa mère Denis Dailleux Boutros et sa mère Denis Dailleux Cairo‘s Manial Sheiha district Gary Calton Chloe Sharrock Photographer Chloe Sharrock Photographer Daily life in Manial Sheiha Gary Calton Denis Dailleux Photographer Dounia, Imbaba, Cairo Amélie Losier Emad et sa mère Denis Dailleux Enaiat Lina Geoushy Fatima Ali / 25 years old, Going out of my house is such an adventure that I go through every day and I'm ready for it. There is not a single time that I go out in the street without being harassed but it never stopped me from wearing what I like. I believe I'm different and I know that people see me as different and I'm working on letting them respect that I'm different. I got a lot of harassment because of my skin colour; I always hear sexual suggestive because I'm black, which doesn't really annoy me. Yet, one of the things that really annoys me is when someone spits on me because of my skin colour, which already happened a lot of times. The hardest situation I had to go through was when I was walking in the street in Downtown and a child with his mom shouted at me: "Hey you black girl with dirty hair." I had my Rastas and responded to his mother saying that it would be good if you teach him how to behave, but then they gathered around me and started beating me. They repeated harassing and annoying me so many times afterwards and it started to annoy me because I was passing by the same street where they also live, but still I refuse to respond to violence with violence. All of this happened only because I had Rasta dreadlocks, which was strange for society. Some time later after this incident I shaved my head, but people still annoy me in the street because of my skin colour. Roger Anis Fatima Ali / 25 years old, Going out of my house is such an adventure that I go through every day and I'm ready for it. There is not a single time that I go out in the street without being harassed but it never stopped me from wearing what I like. I believe I'm different and I know that people see me as different and I'm working on letting them respect that I'm different. I got a lot of harassment because of my skin colour; I always hear sexual suggestive because I'm black, which doesn't really annoy me. Yet, one of the things that really annoys me is when someone spits on me because of my skin colour, which already happened a lot of times. The hardest situation I had to go through was when I was walking in the street in Downtown and a child with his mom shouted at me: "Hey you black girl with dirty hair." I had my Rastas and responded to his mother saying that it would be good if you teach him how to behave, but then they gathered around me and started beating me. They repeated harassing and annoying me so many times afterwards and it started to annoy me because I was passing by the same street where they also live, but still I refuse to respond to violence with violence. All of this happened only because I had Rasta dreadlocks, which was strange for society. Some time later after this incident I shaved my head, but people still annoy me in the street because of my skin colour. Roger Anis 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 Gary Calton Photographer Hala Nammr / 54 years old, Once I bought a very nice dress that I liked. After I bought it and tried it at home again, I immediately took it off and gave it to my daughter because I realized that I will not be able to wear it in Cairo. The dress was backless and I knew I will not feel comfortable wearing it, unless I was in a country other than Egypt. In a different place, I would wear it without hesitation. Roger Anis Hala Nammr / 54 years old, Once I bought a very nice dress that I liked. After I bought it and tried it at home again, I immediately took it off and gave it to my daughter because I realized that I will not be able to wear it in Cairo. The dress was backless and I knew I will not feel comfortable wearing it, unless I was in a country other than Egypt. In a different place, I would wear it without hesitation. Roger Anis Heba Khalifa Photographer Heba, Ataba, Cairo Amélie Losier Hussein et sa mère Denis Dailleux I am a single mother. My daughter and I are one. She is always with me. Any lover I might have must love my daughter more than me. So I cannot easily find a lover. My life is overloaded. I work six days a week and am all over the place doing acrobatics to be able to provide shelter to my daughter. 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 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 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 have spent my whole life trying to love myself. My body is heavy. I am detached from my soul. I am in the desert in my own home, empty of intimacy and feeling. 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 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 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 In this March 29, 2019 photo, a Bedouin girl holds plants she picked for her mother in the mountains near Wadi Sahw, Abu Zenima, in South Sinai, Egypt. Nariman El-Mofty In this March 29, 2019 photo, a Korean tourist poses for a photograph for her friend on a trek in the mountains near Wadi Sahw, Abu Zenima, in South Sinai, Egypt. 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