Women Academics From Egypt

"The ministry believes in the importance of the role of the museums in spreading cultural and art awareness and to shed light on the art treasures in Egypt. I urge the citizens to visit the museums in this period."

"The attempt is to widen the scope of research and analysis and provide some observations on the role of social sciences in this crucial historical moment."

"This lecture will attempt to portray and discuss the major issues and problems we are facing, with special reference to the Arab scene and the way political scientists have been approaching the political events in the region and globally."

"If we take a firm stand in defense of our religion and our faith, we will be in Paradise. We are martyrs. We seek martyrdom."

"History is full of people like you. History is full of tyrants, and it is as though you are repeating history once again."

"Perhaps Eisenhower was also right when he declared… We thought that they were worthy of being a symbol of liberties, because the Statue of Liberty is in America's bosom, which was imported from America…"

"Oh people of culture and humanism! Is this humanism? Is this what you've learned? Perhaps Shakespeare was right when he said that when the blind idiots will rule the world, he would drain his blood to death. That is what is happening now."

"people on Wheelchairs or people who are using Crutches or even sensory disabilities they're much easier to deal with because they have normal intelligence and they would function well at the school and so on. I feel that the people with cognitive disabilities pose the biggest challenges so, I always feel that we have to not marginalize them, but actually include them and make sure that their needs are met in any setting."

"We need to make sure that the curriculum becomes more flexible as to meet the"

"I think that we have to make sure that the legislation, the law, allows people with cognitive disabilities to inter school like everyone else. We also have to change the way we train teachers;"

"At that time, of course I was much younger and I wanted to understand more about my self and about other people's personalities I wanted to learn more about disorders I was very much interested in those types of things"

"I think I've learned that people can be different and that people have always their excuses or the reasons behind their differences and that we one of the things that I've learned is to always accept differences and accept that everybody is entitled for their the way they think and behave and that it is all has roots to their environment and their genetic make-up too"

"I’m so grateful that Egypt had free high quality public higher education when Ali and I met. If it were not for Ain Shams, I would not have been able to come this far."

"The department has now hired many women and fortunately they have had a much easier time than I did, with maternity leave and lots of flexibility in doing research and teaching. I am glad that this happens, and that women are advancing and doing a great job, but I am still disappointed that in this country, we still have a glass ceiling and so few women choose to go into engineering."

"I was lucky to have a very supportive husband who saw our home life as his responsibility just as much as mine."

"The first time I went to the classroom, many students waled out. They thought they were in the wrong class. I wrote the title of the course on the board, and they came back."

"I was the first woman to graduate with a PhD degree from the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California Berkeley.”"

"My father had hoped for my brothers to become engineers, but I was the one who did in the end. My mother, having raised 7 kids without any help, was very supportive of me"

"I came from a large family of 4 sisters and 2 brothers. We lived in Cairo and my father was a civil servant and an actor and my mother was a homemaker. My father believed that the place for women is home to raise children. He did not believe that a girl’s education is important"

"I express my pleasure over Al Gebali’s appointment. It is like seeing the results of what I started."

"A ban on entering the judiciary based on gender goes against Section forty"

"No more than secretaries toeing the line and being assigned tasks instead of acting like ministers capable of initiating policies."

"I was the second Arab female ambassador after King Hassan’s sister. I was also not the first Egyptian ambassador to Europe; I was preceded by Hatshepsut, Nefertari and Nefertiti, those Egyptian queens who are well known in the world over."

"To get my rights. I joined Huda Shaarawy’s association and other associations that were fighting for women’s rights. I was then only 21 but to no avail."

"An increase in average female education by just three years can lower fertility rates and increase female support of political change and ability to be independent."

"Promoting women’s rights because it will spur development and economic growth is a powerful way for the United States to advance its foreign policy in the future."

"There remains a huge gap between the vision and reality. Why? Because the big debate is how to blend Islamic politics and respect for women’s rights,”"

"We need women to have self-confidence that they can change, that this is the revolution we need and this is the revolution we deserve."

"This strict code of conduct has its roots in the patriarchal culture…of the country,and exerts enormous influence on society. So, the mindset of patriarchy is still there,”"

"a lot of our experience of the world but sometimes they take over too much and I think maybe there is something else to be explored, something more than defeat."

"If your work is about trauma and repression, it’s hard to be hopeful."

"But there is something beautiful in the ability to create and I think that is the driving force, it is an attempt to create, to build, to be a witness, to tell stories when everything else doesn’t make sense and you know that your possibility to change things on the ground is not so high."

"think it is very hard to imagine what your driving forces are and often one has to ask again and again, what’s the point of doing this, what’s the point of doing this, what’s the point of doing this."

"often feel like, because of the situation we are in, there is no point in doing this. But I think there is also just joy, in finding that things come together, the joy of writing, even though I really find writing gruesome."

"I now cherish the ability to be surprised by things that come up unexpectedly, by beautiful things and new perspectives that emerge out of the blue, even in the most conventional and repetitive settings. The ability to be surprised surprises me."

"All talk to democracy is bulls— without equality with men…when will the bomb of Arab woman explode? I’m speaking here of her ability, her ambition, her liberty, strength and rights."

". Remembering that what women need… is a voice and a job"

"Though current legislation is more favorable to women than ever before in Egypt."

"In the novel, I aimed at crystallizing three levels of significance. The first one deals with the development of the female protagonist, and its related to the second which deals with developments in Egypt at that period. As for the third level, it incorporates a commentary on the values of the middle class and its practices and how they prevent the country from a take off."

"I love you, and I want you to love me. But I do not want you to lose yourself in me, or in anyone. Nor do I want you to draw your self-confidence and your trust in life from me or from anyone else. I want you to have your own individual, independent self, and the confidence that can only spring from the self, not from others. Then -When you have achieved that - no one will ever be able to crush you."

"I trembled with feelings of powerlessness, of misery, of oppression, as the bullets of the police killed fourteen demonstrators that day. I screamed for my inability to act, I screamed for my inability to go down to the street to stop the bullets from coming out of the black guns. I shed the child in me and the young woman came of age — prematurely — for I encountered knowledge that went beyond the home to include all of the homeland. My future fate was decided at that moment."

"There had been a time when she had regarded Gamila with a touch of disdain. She had considered herself stronger than Gamila, than her aunt, than her father - and stronger than their beliefs, their rules , their traditions. She had laughed with a certain superiority when her mother had said, 'The one who knows the fundamentals does not suffer.' Yes, she had existed for a time in the shadow of this silly illusion. But in truth it was she who was silly, trivial, conceited, and despicable. She was the doormat beneath people's soles."

"Saleh further said that enslaving and raping Israeli women is ‘acceptable’ and ‘encouraged’ in Islam. She also condemned Muslim men who are using East Asian women for sexual relationships. She said that only legitimately-owned slaves come from prisoners of war. After Saleh’s interview went viral on social media, Muslim community denounced the claims made by the professor and said that she is propagating a wrong image of Islam."

"According to The Inquisitr News report, in the video posted by LiveLeak, Saud Saleh said that the rape is allowed during times of “legitimate war” between Muslims and their enemies. “The female prisoners of wars are ‘those whom you own.’ In order to humiliate them, they become the property of the army commander, or of a Muslim, and he can have sex with them just like he has sex with his wives,” Saleh was quoted as saying. (ALSO READ: Muslim leader Abdul Raheem Quraishi is dead)"

"While speaking on purchase of slaves from Asian countries for sexual purposes, Saleh said that Allah allows Muslim men to have sexual relations with slave women and that is ‘legitimate’. Saleh suggested that the only time it is acceptable for Muslim men to enslave a woman for sexual purposes is during a ‘legitimate war’ between Muslims and their enemies such as that with Israel. Also Read - Bihar Gangrape and Murder: Bereaved Kin of Minor Victim Seeks Death for Accused, Police Say, 'Up to Court to Decide'"