Zainab Magdy was born in Giza, Egypt, and is doing an MA in Performance Theory at Cairo University where she is a teaching assistant. She has been part of writing and storytelling workshops with a gender sensitive perspective since 2009. She has been acting in theatre since 2007 and has recently taken on playwriting and is now part of a new writing and performance project: "The Odd Ducks". Follow her on twitter@ZainabMagdy.
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Published in: 50.50The Day You Catch the Fish: speaking out on domestic abuseViolence is manifested in so many ways, yet it is always the violence that comes within the domestic space that...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian women's rights: no time for dissentThe act of dissent should match the need for equality, rather than the time for equality. In the fight for a right,...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: a reality too dark in which to glimpse hope?The last known message from the Egyptian activist Zainab Mahdy reads, " It's like we're digging in water...There is...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: a space that isn't our ownLast month a young woman was mob attacked on Cairo University campus. Socially and culturally constructed circles...
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Published in: 50.50The 'feminism' of patriarchy in Egypt
Images of women and the brutal violence against them, whether committed by the Army, Police, Muslim Brotherhood or...
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Published in: 50.50Undressing Um Ahmad: Egyptian women between the bikini and the burquaa'Egypt's new First Lady is covered, a first in the history of this country. Just as her Muslim Brotherhood husband...