Women's Rights

Mona Eltahawy has a blistering diatribe on women's rights in the Arab world, primarily Saudi Arabia, in this month's Foreign Policy.  For example, did you know that

• Cairo has a woman-only subway car
• Most Saudi shopping malls are for families only
• 80% of Egyptian woman claimed to have been sexually harassed, 60% of the men admitted to having harassed women (that percent of admissions absolutely amazed me)
• 15 girl students were prevented from leaving a burning school building because they were not wearing headscarves and cloaks - they all died
• In Libya, female victims of sexual assault were placed in "social rehabilitation centers" which they could not leave unless a man agreed to marry them or their families took them back

Eltahawy was beaten and sexually assaulted by Egyptian police in November 2011.