Margot Badran's Articles

The Muslim Brotherhood's rejection of a UN declaration against violence against women has shown up the Islamist group's patriarchal atavism for all to see

The targeting of women in the Egyptian revolution – to make them know “their place” – was among the first shots fired by the counter-revolution. Yet they fight on

Though the banned practice of female genital mutilation has nothing to do with Islam, Egyptian Islamists look determined to re-legitimise it. The implications for Egyptian women are dire