6 April 2012 - “We are not women, we are Egyptians”. That is what a young woman in Tahrir Square said to me on 25 January 2012, celebrating a year of the Revolution, when I enquired about the group of women she was with.
Just over a year on, people are asking the insistent question – ‘has anything changed’? The first 18 days of the revolution, ending with the ousting of Mubarak, and what followed, has changed masses of Egyptians in a way that no counter-revolution can destroy. Millions of Egyptian women and men have defined and re-defined who they are and what they want for the future of Egypt.
For the full news story, see Open Democracy.
6 April 2012 - “We are not women, we are Egyptians”. That is what a young woman in Tahrir Square said to me on 25 January 2012, celebrating a year of the Revolution, when I enquired about the group of women she was with.
Just over a year on, people are asking the insistent question – ‘has anything changed’? The first 18 days of the revolution, ending with the ousting of Mubarak, and what followed, has changed masses of Egyptians in a way that no counter-revolution can destroy. Millions of Egyptian women and men have defined and re-defined who they are and what they want for the future of Egypt.
For the full news story, see Open Democracy.