Advocates are hoping that the case will help shift attitudes in Egypt, which only made sexual harassment illegal in 2014. Mona Eltahawy put it best in her book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle ...

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ISIS’s infamous treatment of Yazidi women, the so-called ‘sex-slaves,’ is also recounted. Shand noted that the only ‘medical attention’ ISIS gave its victims ‘came from an Arab female doctor who ...