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In a recently aired 30-minute episode titled “Sexual Harassment in Egypt”, young actor Waleed Hammad took to the streets of Cairo dressed as a woman in order to experience harassment firsthand.
In the report, Hammad - who went out both veiled and unveiled to see whether that would make a difference - said he was followed by fancy cars with men in suits who would try to lure him into the vehicle.
On another occasion, he was followed by a man who seemed to be talking on the phone. The actor realised after a while that the man was in fact cautiously addressing him, proposing a paid appointment with another man in a hotel room.
“I realised that simply walking on the street, for a woman, is such a huge effort, a psychological effort and a bodily effort. It’s like women are besieged,” Hammad said.
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Sexual harassment is an endemic, longstanding, highly controversial and sensitive subject in Egypt. A string of high-profile incidents of mass sex attacks in recent months has drawn global attention on the phenomenon.
“However,” Aly said, “society has by and large turned a blind eye to the everyday forms of sexual harassment that millions of Egyptian women experience every day on the street, public transport and at work.”
Moreover, some men remain unsympathetic towards women who have been harassed, blaming them for dressing provocatively and calling the abuse upon them. Full story...
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In a recently aired 30-minute episode titled “Sexual Harassment in Egypt”, young actor Waleed Hammad took to the streets of Cairo dressed as a woman in order to experience harassment firsthand.
In the report, Hammad - who went out both veiled and unveiled to see whether that would make a difference - said he was followed by fancy cars with men in suits who would try to lure him into the vehicle.
On another occasion, he was followed by a man who seemed to be talking on the phone. The actor realised after a while that the man was in fact cautiously addressing him, proposing a paid appointment with another man in a hotel room.
“I realised that simply walking on the street, for a woman, is such a huge effort, a psychological effort and a bodily effort. It’s like women are besieged,” Hammad said.
(...)
Sexual harassment is an endemic, longstanding, highly controversial and sensitive subject in Egypt. A string of high-profile incidents of mass sex attacks in recent months has drawn global attention on the phenomenon.
“However,” Aly said, “society has by and large turned a blind eye to the everyday forms of sexual harassment that millions of Egyptian women experience every day on the street, public transport and at work.”
Moreover, some men remain unsympathetic towards women who have been harassed, blaming them for dressing provocatively and calling the abuse upon them. Full story...
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