Exposing the secret of domestic abuse in Egypt

Exposing the secret of domestic abuse in Egypt, by Reem Abdellatif | Women Under Siege Project

►http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/blog/entry/exposing-the-secret-of-domestic-abuse-in-egypt

Exposing the secret of domestic abuse in Egypt | Women Under Siege Project
►http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/blog/entry/exposing-the-secret-of-domestic-abuse-in-egypt

My father grew up in an authoritarian, impoverished system that treated women like objects—a system that still exists today under the rule of a military-backed government and a relentless patriarchal regime. Although my father was an educated man and a doctor of medicine, the system in which he was raised left an odious imprint on his character.

This system continues to leave the same impression on Egyptian youth. In a recent video, young Egyptian boys are asked why they think women are harassed so much in Egypt. Their answers were shocking: Each said women who are harassed are asking for it because of how they dress.

–— WMC’s Women Under Siege is a journalism project that investigates how rape and other forms of sexualized violence are used as tools in genocide and conflict throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. ---

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