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Egypt is among the most secular Arab states in the Middle East. There are no morality police, the legal system is mostly secular, and women are equal citizens. Turns out though, Islamic fundamentalism really does trump Arab secularism:
Makarem al-Deiri is standing for election to the Egyptian parliament next month after a long academic career but she makes no bones about her view that a woman's place is in the home. The only woman candidate backed by Egypt's influential Muslim Brotherhood, the 55-year-old mother of seven insists there is no point arguing for sexual equality as such a demand "goes against nature."
Two approaches to misogyny in the Arab and Muslim world: the Saudi model, in which women aren't allowed outside without a male relative, no driving, no voting, no job, etc or the Egyptian model, in which women are allowed to do all those things on the condition that they deny that they should be allowed to do them. How clever.
Makarem al-Deiri is standing for election to the Egyptian parliament next month after a long academic career but she makes no bones about her view that a woman's place is in the home. The only woman candidate backed by Egypt's influential Muslim Brotherhood, the 55-year-old mother of seven insists there is no point arguing for sexual equality as such a demand "goes against nature."
Two approaches to misogyny in the Arab and Muslim world: the Saudi model, in which women aren't allowed outside without a male relative, no driving, no voting, no job, etc or the Egyptian model, in which women are allowed to do all those things on the condition that they deny that they should be allowed to do them. How clever.
