Laila’s Soft Screaming: A Discourse Analysis of Cyber-Feminist Resistance on the Egyptian Women Blogsphere
A Research Paper submitted by:
Dr. Mohamed Hossam Ismail
Faculty of Mass Communication
Ajman University
UAE
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By: Lara Zankoul
My participation to Kolena Laila focuses on the double social pressure that every woman in our surroundings is faced with at some point in her life. Should she focus on her career and be a successful money-maker in a world where wealth is measured in cash? Or should she make herself pretty, find a husband and raise children? In most cases, women end up having to juggle between both aspects, making it an almost impossible mission.
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Written by: Sara El-Awaisi
Master student in Islamicjerusalem Studies, United Kingdom
“I feel liberated!”; a comment made by British women on a TV programme. You would assume that women feel liberated when they break the chains they are born into, or the day women gain their independence or even the day they can fight for their rights and actually accomplish them. Yet this was a comment made by a woman who at the end of the programme ‘How to look good naked’ on channel 4 was happy to have a naked photo shoot. Unhappy at first with their bodies as we are all at some point in our life, Gok Wan, the fashion stylist of the programme is able to transform these women in his inspirational fashion series that shows women how to look fantastic with their clothes on or off no matter what their body shape is and without the need for surgery.
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Written by: Rana Abduel Fattah
Honor crime is the killing of a family member by one or more fellow family members. The murderer believes the victim to have brought dishonor upon the family.
Human Rights Watch defines honor crime to be a murder committed by male family members against female family members for a variety of reasons.
The reasons include refusing to enter into an arranged marriage, being the victim of asexual assault, seeking a divorce—even from an abusive husband—or (allegedly) committing adultery.
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