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How did Alia escape the fate that haunted so many women in Egyptian cinema? In this essay, the journalist and film critic revisits Mona Zaki’s character in An El Eshq Wel Hawa (Of Love and Passion), showing how Alia broke with stereotypical portrayals of women and stepped outside the stories that turned a woman’s sexual experience into the beginning of her punishment and the end of her right to love and to live.
The delay in implementing Egypt’s new Criminal Procedure Law until October 2027 has reopened the debate over the need to revisit the legislation, amid calls for a broader legislative review that goes beyond technical and organizational preparations to cover fair trial guarantees, defense rights, pretrial detention, and limits on the powers of investigative bodies and the judicial police.
When someone is detained before being convicted, the consequences extend to their family, their work, and their livelihood. So why shouldn't less restrictive precautionary measures be the default?
From cyberstalking to coordinated harassment campaigns, technology-facilitated violence has become one of the biggest threats to women's participation in digital life
A practical guide to documentation, reporting, and protection after experiencing technology-facilitated violence