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El Lamoona: A bitter taste in the mouth for Egypt’s ruling regime

One song made famous by YouTube is El Lamoona, ‘the lemon’

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Amal Ramsis: Exploring the “Forbidden”

Filmmaker Amal Ramsis explores all that is forbidden in Egypt

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Eros, or the case of the hidden crotch

Most paintings are of strange-looking women in repose, with an emphasis on…

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Teatro Independent Theatre: Enlightening the masses

The theatre group performed Sartre’s No Exit at the Jeunes Créateurs Festival,…

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Sonia Hassan: Healing Cairo through meditation

The meditation depends on repeating The One or Allah’s names several times,…

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Tahrir Bodyguard: Safeguarding female protesters

The group has been actively ensuring women’s safety in protests.

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Operation #ColoringThruCorruption

A group of street artists are using colour to reshape the minds…

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BuSSy empowers women through theatre

"BuSSy is a project intended to empower women and raise awareness about…

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Female directors celebrated at the Netherlands- Flemish Institute

The collection of films included a range of genres; from personal chronicles…

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Ma3looma raises sexual and reproductive awareness

Besides providing online information, the initiative’s main goal is to answer people’s…

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