Sexual Harassment In Egypt Essay

Life has a lot of aspects that we have to adapt to whether we accept those facts or not. Egypt’s culture, religious beliefs, and manly society puzzled the lives of women by sexually harassing them and limited the Egyptians’ freedom to express their opinions. Sexual harassment is not a new phenomenon in Egypt, but has been increasing, especially after January the 25th revolution. “99.3% of the Egyptian women have been subjected to sexual harassment either at work, public transportations, or in streets” (Peuchaud, 2014). Being Egyptian and a woman who lived through the 25th of January revolution, I have witnessed a lot of victims of sexually harassed women and experienced sexual harassment myself. Female victims of sexual harassment in Egypt

It is the practice of being feminine or masculine (West and Zimmerman 1987) plays an important role in the Egyptian society. Men express their masculinity and show it off when they harass a woman. It is horrible how a community thinks that harassing women is a way of doing gender and expressing masculinity. If women will not take any actions against sexual harassment, then men will see this as acceptable to harass a woman anytime without being punished. Therefore, it will negatively affect women as individuals, but it also gives others, who see the abuse, the idea that it is acceptable to be treated like an

The Egyptians yet to accept freedom of speech, Bassem Youssef had to shut down his program, “Egypt 's most popular satirist Bassem Youssef weekly TV show, which lambasted presidents and politicians, has been cancelled because of pressure on the station airing it and a climate in the country that no longer accepts satire” (Hendawi, 2014). In addition, “he performs his satire in a country that is still testing the limits of its hard-earned freedom, where those who speak out against the powerful still have much to fear” (Rayman, 2013). Moreover, recently an activist called Fatma Naout expressed her religious opinion on T.V. and as a result she was accused of insulting religion. As a consequence, she was sent to prison for three years and fined LE 20, 000, equivalent to over $2550 (Gamal El-Din,