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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
“The group changed my life… It rebuilt my confidence”. What’s the story behind the feminist, Arabic-language Facebook group discussing sex with women in Egypt? After joining a number of women’s groups on Facebook, feminist PhD student and researcher Fatima Ibrahim found that not only did women in these groups ask a lot of questions about sex – the greatest taboo in Egypt – but most of the responses were decidedly male, conservative and religious in tone and the bottom line basically boiled down to: “Women should please their husbands”. “Many women know nothing about safe sex, how to stop the…