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Friday’s Five: Egyptian Women and Biographies

I am still researching Egyptian women but here are five I found interesting and would like to read more about.

Saheir al-Qalamawi
Rania Elwani
Shajarat El Dor
Doria Shafiq
Hoda Shaarawi

Friday's Five: Things Every Wife Should Know

It’s not Friday but another Kolena Laila post.  Marriage is tricky business.  Even the most compatible couples have their issues but smart couples know how to deal with them.

You will fight

You probably fought before you got married right?  If you didn’t then consider yourself extremely lucky.  Your first fight as a married couple is usually [...]

Friday's Five: Things Every Woman Should Know

I am a day late and it is Saturday.  I have all of these post ideas written down in notes all over the place but my crochet obsession has taken over my internet obsession which is a good thing in general.

This post is dedicated to all women and is also a Kolena Laila post.

Women should [...]

Women, Ads and Stereotypes

When will advertising people get that not all women fall the same segment.  I get annoyed when I see advertising which targets the woman who only cooks, shops or gets her hair done.  Like these two ads for example.

The first one was for a Kuwaiti Women forum, it just talks to the Kuwaiti woman who [...]

Kolena Laila 2009

Women really do rule the world. They just haven’t figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we’re all in big big trouble. ~”Doctor Leon,” This year  Kolena Laila will start on the 24th of December until the 30th.  If you don’t know what it is, it is an [...]

Friday’s Five: A Legacy of Women

This is a very personal post.  I have chosen to talk about the most amazing women that I have come to learn from and love very much in my family.  The women in my family from both my maternal and paternal side are exceptional.  They are strong in spirit and are a treasure trove of [...]

We Will Trancsend

I watching the clip and started to cry.  I cried because it was so touching, true and painful.  I cried because when you are so far away from all of the important women in your life you know how much they mean to you and how important their support is.  You understand that with their [...]

Kolena Laila: Respect

Respect

Part of the Kolena Laila initiative.

I have been thinking about what the main issue for Laila is for the past couple of weeks.  I thought about what affects us, what makes us happy, what hurts us, what makes us sad and what would help us the most.  I looked up statistics on domestic violence, [...]

Amy Mowafi’s Fe-Mail the trials and tribulations of being a Good Egyptian Girl

Book Cover

I asked my sister to get me this book from Egypt when she was coming because I had read a couple of reviews and was interested in what she had to say.  I am always interested when young Egyptian female writers get published.  I’ve always thought that the younger generations have lots of [...]

Just thoughts

I was thinking and just decided to post this as a rant.  I was thinking about women’s issues in general because of the Kolena Layla campaign (if I can call it that).  I love empowered women.  I tried to start blogging about great examples of Egyptian women a while back and got stuck.  I still [...]