Feminism according to Azza
By: Alexandra Kinias Parliamentarian Azza al-Garf is among nine other women elected (out of 498 deputies) in the first parliamentary elections after the ousting of Mubarak’s regime. It is worth noting that her party, Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood‘s political arm that won by mudslide, neither played any role in the revolution nor supported it. With the dominance of the Islamists in the Egyptian parliament the civility of the country and the rights of its women and minorities are at peril. In the few interviews after she became a public figure, it became obvious that with her … Continue reading Feminism according to Azza