Showing posts with label islamist feminism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label islamist feminism. Show all posts

Monday, October 22, 2012

No Red Lines, She Claims or, Feminism in Egypt

This is Horeya Farghaly:






And last September we learned

Horeya Farghaly has 

no red lines


Egyptian actress Horeya Farghaly has told an online newspaper that her role in the serial “Dawaran Shubra” will be a break from the norm, something she considers positive. She said that she was happy with her role and her character. She said that it was the first time she is acting in a drama series, especially in a sad role. She said that she had to practice for her character for many days before starting filming.

One of the biggest problems she faced during the shoot was when she was attacked by thugs on set in the Cairo neighborhood of Shubra.

The crew removed the actors from the location to protect them and tried to confront the men, but Farghaly went to  a military checkpoint and asked soldiers to intervene. Farghaly criticized those who stereotype her as a seductive actress, 




especially after her role in the movie “Call Me, Thank You.”  She said people changed their minds when they saw her last Ramadan in two serials playing totally different characters.

End of story:

Houriya Farghali perform Hajj
 
In an atmosphere of tranquility, and temporal dimension of the limelight and lenses, Egyptian artist nymph Farghali decided to travel to the Holy Land [Saudi Arablia, that is] accompanied by her mother, to perform the Hajj, to gain psychological and mental serenity caused by the proximity of the house of God and so did.


She expressed before leaving Cairo her happiness that her new film, "Photographer Dead", will participate in the official competition of the events within the Arab films Cairo International Film Festival in its thirty-fifth session, which will be held from 28 November to 6 December.

Where did those red lines go?

Did she yield to Islamism by going to Canossa, or was this an honest, genuine act of religious pilgrimage?

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Sunday, April 01, 2012

The Smoke From Under the Burkha

From a Reuters story:
Anita lifted the sky-blue burqa from her face, revealing glazed eyes and cracked lips from years of smoking opium, and touched her saggy belly, still round from giving birth to her seventh child a month ago.  "I can't give breast milk to my baby," said the 32-year-old Anita, who like other women interviewed for this story, declined to give her full name. "I'm scared he'll get addicted
She was huddled with other women at the U.N.-funded Nejat drug rehabilitation center in the old quarter of Kabul, having sneaked out of her home to avoid being stopped by her husband from going outside alone.

...Like many of Afghanistan's female drug users, Anita picked up the habit from her husband.
Like other women interviewed for this story, Anita asked that only her first name be used...Opiate consumption in Afghanistan, where it has long been a medication but in recent years has been used increasingly for recreation, is also on a sharp rise. The UNODC says Afghanistan has around one million heroin and opium addicts out of a population of 30 million, making it the world's top user per capita...Najia said she picked up the habit from her husband after he returned from his job as a laborer in neighboring Iran [which...] has the second highest heroin abuse rate in the world after Afghanistan, according to UNODC. Afghan addicts among the 1 million refugees in Iran have become such an issue Tehran has started to expel them.

...inmate Madina looks nothing like an ordinary Afghan woman.
One of seven injecting heroin users in Badam Bagh, she lives with her teenage son and daughter in prison, where she has been for seven years since she killed her husband..."I would love to give it all up, but how am I meant to, as a woman?" the 37-year-old mother of two said as she scratched at the scabs on her arm, dark red from recent use. She supports her habit by selling handmade sexual aid tools -- stuffing compacted wool into condoms -- to other inmates, several of whom have developed lesbian relationships.
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