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If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.
Shereen El Feki / Journalist
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Want
Writing
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The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.
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Alive
Arab World
Egypt
Patriarchy
World
Arab
Wider
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HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.
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Hiv
Inspiration
Law
Motivation
Attitudes
Brings
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Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.
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Fuel
Hiv
People
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Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?
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Motivation
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Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.
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Borrowed
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Islam
Civilizations
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Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.
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Economist
Grim
Hiv
Epidemic
Included
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Task
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The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.
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Motivation
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Social change doesn't happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation.
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Confrontation
Dramatic
Negotiation
Social Change
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Beating
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Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and distrust of the other.
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Egypt
Intolerance
Melting
Melting Pot
Mubarak
Classes
Cultures
Religions
Rule
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Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which are neither conventionally Western, nor are they traditionally Islamic.
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Islamic
Western
Work Busy People
Work Where People
Arab
Innovations
Neither
Nor
Region
Taking
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I'm half Egyptian, and I'm Muslim. But I grew up in Canada, far from my Arab roots. Like so many who straddle East and West, I've been drawn, over the years, to try to better understand my origins.
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Canada
East
Egyptian
Roots
Arab
Drawn
Muslim
Origins
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Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts.
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Access
Civil Society
Hiv
People
Redress
Rights
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Courts
Ensure
Raise
Services
Strengthened
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Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.
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Alexandria
Canada
Concrete
Egypt
Generations
Nile
Roots
Family Father Back
Runs
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I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help outsiders - like myself - to better comprehend this pivotal part of the world, up-close and personal.
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Egyptian
Outsiders
Pivotal
Roots
Arab
Citadel
Comprehend
Muslim
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The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn’t just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions wearing down Egyptian society: between religions, classes, sexes, and generations.
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Squares
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Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched by HIV with compassion and acceptance. These laws respect universal human rights and they are grounded in evidence.
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Compassion
Grounded
Hiv
Human Rights
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Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives unofficial license to treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk unlike other citizens.
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Country
Hiv
Law
License
People
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Unlike
Tide
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Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we treat them ourselves: as equals. If we are going to stop the spread of HIV in our lifetime, then that is the change we need to spread.
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Respect
Hiv
Law
Lifetime
People
Risk
Spread
Laws
Change Start People
Greatest
Equals
Start
Treat
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The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Just because we got rid of the father of the nation in Egypt or Tunisia, Mubarak or Ben Ali, and in a number of other countries, does not mean that the father of the family does not still hold sway.
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Arab World
Egypt
Mubarak
Other Countries
Patriarchy
Tunisia
Family World Father
Ali
Arab
Ben
Rid
Sway
Wider
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We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my childhood, we were the only members living outside of Egypt. So between my father's prestige as the eldest son and my own exotic pedigree, I basked in the spotlight.
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Egypt
Eldest
Exotic
Members
Pedigree
Prestige
Spotlight
Western
Family Mother Childhood
Arabic
Family Childhood Father
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In Egypt, where my research is focused, I have seen plenty of trouble in and out of the citadel. There are legions of young men who can't afford to get married, because marriage has become a very expensive proposition. They are expected to bear the burden of costs in married life, but they can't find jobs.
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Jobs
Marriage
Burden
Egypt
Expected
Focused
Married
Married Life
Plenty
Research
Afford
Bear
Citadel
Get Married
Proposition
Young Men
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Growing up, I came to love Egypt and respect Islam, but I never thought to go beyond the surface. Back in Canada, many of my father's Egyptian friends questioned his decision not to raise his only child more strictly in the faith. I was not taught salat, the Muslim ritual of prayer, nor did I study Arabic.
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Egypt
Islam
Only Child
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Muslim
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Fulla is the Arab world's answer to Barbie. Now, according to proponents of the clash of civilizations, Barbie and Fulla occupy these completely separate spheres. They have different interests. They have divergent values. And should they ever come in contact... well, I've got to tell you, it's just not going to be pretty.
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Barbie
Clash
Contact
Different
Divergent
Should
Spheres
World
Just
Now
Come
According
Pretty
Answer
Arab
Civilizations
Ever
Got
Interests
Occupy
Well
Separate
Tell
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4Shbab has been dubbed Islamic MTV. Its creator, who is an Egyptian TV producer called Ahmed Abu Haiba, wants young people to be inspired by Islam to lead better lives. He reckons the best way to get that message across is to use the enormously popular medium of music videos. 4Shbab was set up as an alternative to existing Arab music channels.
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Best Way
Creator
Egyptian
Islam
Mtv
Alternative
Abu
Arab
Channels
Existing
Medium
Producer
Music Videos
Young People
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My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians.
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Book
Brother
Islam
Leap
Mobility
Obliged
Preacher
Upward Mobility
Wales
Among
Family Men Mother
Anglican
Baptist
Became
Christians
Converted
Marry
Jews
Lay
Muslim
Upward
Vicar
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