Month: August 2016

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Morality Police: Institutional Violence vs. Women

Women of Egypt

— By: Alexandra Kinias — Clerics with long bushy beards and fermented brains obsessed with female sexuality, I envision them gathering in dark caves in remote mountain terrains. From behind thick clouds of opium smoke, they fantasize over the memory of a woman’s scent that lingered in an empty elevator long after she had disembarked, or at a sight of toes in summer sandals seen from under a long kaftan. As they acknowledge the evilness of women’s sexuality, they draft fatwas to relegate them from the ranks of humans to a level above their domestic animals, to discipline and control … Continue reading Morality Police: Institutional Violence vs. Women

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Somethings Can’t be Covered

Women of Egypt

  –By: Alexandra Kinias — It was not uncommon, when I was growing up in Egypt, to hear loud screams screeching the stillness of the hot summer nights, when people opened their windows to the cool Mediterranean breeze. Chilling sounds of women pleading to their husbands to stop or calling for help pierced the neighborhood. And by sunrise, perpetrators walked freely in the streets, as if nothing had happened, while the bruised faces you met, with eyes averted were the only proof of the heinous crime committed against women Domestic violence is a disturbing phenomenon practiced by men across cultures … Continue reading Somethings Can’t be Covered