Sara Yasin is a Politics Assigning Editor at PolicyMic. Last week she wrote about Qahera, the butt-kicking, veiled heroine created by Deena, an Egyptian artist who aims to battle both misogyny and Islamophobia with her pen.
Yasin writes: ‘Covered from head-to-toe, Qahera patrols Egypt’s public spaces, and in different scenes she fights violent mobs, as well as inaction around harassment. Since the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, the country has seen a rise in violent sexual assault in Tahrir Square, the main site of ongoing political activity in Cairo, Egypt’s capital. Just during a week of protests starting on June 30, about 150 sexual assaults were reported, according to local groups.’
According to a UN Women survey, 99.3% of Egyptian women have reported being sexual harassment, with 91.5% reporting unwanted physical harassment.
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