women’s rights, Mona Baker

Egypt: the battle over hope and morale

August 31, 2015 Mona Baker Egypt, Hoda Elsadda, Interviews, Translating Dissent

Open Democracy HODA ELSADDA 2 November 2011 The deliberate attempt to discredit women’s rights by associating them with the ex- first lady Suzanne Mubarak is a key challenge for women’s rights activists in Egypt, so too is the battle not to surrender to the prophets of doom and gloom, Hoda Elsadda tells Deniz Kandiyoti DK: As a women’s rights activist

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Hoda Elsadd, women's rights

Egypt's Transitional Injustice

September 3, 2014 Mona Baker Egypt, Egypt Solidarity, Police Brutality

Posted: 09/02/2014 Dalia Abd El-Hameed Gender and women’s rights officer for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). Yara Sallam, the transitional justice officer at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, was arrested on June 21 a block away from a Cairo protest march against a draconian law that effectively bans demonstrations. Under the law, in effect since