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Edited by: Azza Maghazi
Translated by: Layali Eshqaidef
** On the third day of the week, "We are all Laila" received an invitation to participate in the conference "a better tomorrow for women through work and education" to be held on the seventh and eighth of March in the city of Turin, Italy. If you want to participate, you can find more details through this link.
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Written by: Rana Abduel Fattah
What covers a woman’s face and body becomes a conservative or liberal politics and women are still suspended awaiting freedom of choice to materialize.
The debate whether to ban or not to ban the Niqab is still an exclusively male-dominated privilege.
The different political and religious affiliations have dramatized the Niqab’s controversy in Egypt.
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Wrote by: Azza Maghazy and Hanadi Kawasmi
Translated by: Magi Mostafa
Proofread: Yasmin Gamal
Kolena Laila's second day has seen an amazing number of contributions from Syria and Lebanon, the latest being from Beirut News who chose to give a brief note about Kolena Laila's campaign.
Blogger Ninar writes how for two months she was in doubt about what to write; the problems of Arabic women are more complicated and painful to be discussed in one short post on her blog. She even continues by wondering about which Laila should she speak ?
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Written by: Rana Abduel Fattah
What causes a woman in Syria to be silent about a bruise, a broken rib, a psychological scar, and to be silent about her basic rights as a human being?
In Syria from birth, women are treated unequally by their parents. Male family members are raised to believe they are in charge of female affairs.
This socially constructed assumption varies on different levels depending on how ‘traditional’, ‘religious’, and ‘educated’ the culture of the family is.
In a typical traditional family, dividing and fixing the female and the male roles within the family creates a less cooperative family and escalates the imbalance of the family to a critical stage when the subjugated family bond turns into verbal, psychological, and physical violence practiced mostly by the male.





