“Your voice is your weapon”: Taking on sexual harassment in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt –“Your fear is controlling you,” instructor Amany Abdel-Aal told a roomful of women at a Wen-Do self-defence class, held in a cheerfully painted youth centre on the outskirts of Cairo.The students – most of them Syrian refugees – nodded in agreement.“Sometimes I want to do something but I can’t,” one woman admitted.Their fears are well founded. Most of Ms. Abdel-Aal ’s students have experienced sexual harassment. And they are not alone.
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