{"id":15196,"date":"2011-02-22T21:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15196"},"modified":"2011-02-22T21:00:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T03:00:53","slug":"noha-radwan-how-egyptian-women-took-back-the-street-between-two-%e2%80%9cblack-wednesdays%e2%80%9d-a-first-person-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15196","title":{"rendered":"Noha Radwan: How Egyptian Women Took Back the Street Between Two \u201cBlack Wednesdays\u201d: A First Person Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Noha Radwan<br \/>\n20 February 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On February 16, Roger Ebert, an American film critic and commentator,  tweeted: &#8220;The attack on Lara Logan brings Middle East attitudes toward  women into sad focus.&#8221;\u00a0While the attack on CBS News correspondent Lara  Logan was a tragic and upsetting event, it needs to be understood in its  political context. Any attempt to propound this in such familiar  orientalist terms would be offensive and unfair, not only to Egyptians  protesting for democracy, but to Logan herself. She was not attacked as a  woman&#8211;although the gendered nature of the assault is indisputable; she  was attacked as a professional journalist and a supporter of the  Egyptian protest. I, too, was attacked, probably by the same type of  thugs who attacked Logan. I understand both attacks in light of \u00a0Egypt\u2019s  political conditions and \u00a0the role of the Egyptian women in an ongoing  struggle against oppressive and undemocratic government. The heinous  attacks mark much more than \u201cattitudes towards women.\u201d\u00a0Perhaps they mark  the desperation of a dying regime.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jadaliyya.com\/pages\/index\/694\/how-egyptian-women-took-back-the-street-between-two-\u201cblack-wednesdays\u201d_a-first-person-account\">Click here to continue reading, &#8220;How Egyptian Women Took Back the Street Between Two \u201cBlack Wednesdays\u201d: A First Person Account&#8221; by Noha Radwan<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noha Radwan 20 February 2011 On February 16, Roger Ebert, an American film critic and commentator, tweeted: &#8220;The attack on Lara Logan brings Middle East attitudes toward women into sad focus.&#8221;\u00a0While the attack on CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15196\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3X6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15199,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196\/revisions\/15199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}