Author: Margot Badran

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An Egyptian demonstrator in Cairo during a protest against the Muslim Brotherhood (photo: picture-alliance/landov)

The Muslim Brotherhood and Women's Rights in Egypt

A Project of Patriarchal Extremism

In this essay, the historian and feminist Margot Badran outlines how the Muslim Brotherhood has called into question a UN document that seeks to end violence against women and with it the democratic achievements of the Egyptian revolutionMore

Muslim Brothers as Victims: ''25 TV Stations Are Working against Us"The Egyptian Political Scientist Ammar Ali Hassan: ''The Constitution Is a Catastrophe"Interview with Hassan Abu Haniyya: The Muslim Brothers' Rigid Structures
A women demonstrating in Cairo and holding up a sign that reads 'My freedom is my dignity' (photo: AP)

Debate about Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt

The Ongoing Battle for the Female Body

Although the forbidden practice of female genital mutilation has nothing to do with Islam, Egypt's Islamists are determined to have it legalised once again. The consequences for Egypt's women would be disastrous. By Margot BadranMore

Campaign against Genital Mutilation: A Change of Perspective In Favour of the VictimsInterview with Imam Cheick Mohamad Diallo: Every Day a New Battle against Circumcision in MaliSwedish Study on Circumcision: The Correlation of Genital Mutilation and InfertilityAzhar Conference on Genital Mutilation: Scholars Proscribe Abuse of the Female BodyOusmane Sembene's ''Moolade'': Opposing Genital Mutilation
Egyptian women shout slogans against the President Mohamed Morsi decree, at Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, 27 November 2012 (photo: dpa)

A Backlash of Patriarchy in Egypt

Hope for a Proper Revolution

The targeting of women in the Egyptian revolution – to make them know "their place" – was among the first shots fired by the counter-revolution. Yet they fight on. A viewpoint by Margot BadranMore

Interview with Margot Badran: ''This Revolution Challenges Patriarchy''Women's Rights in Post-revolutionary Egypt: A Second Revolt for Sheherazade's DaughtersEgyptian Women's Rights Activist Hoda Badran: Women as Losers of the Revolution?