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Funny or Far-Fetched? Ghada Abdel Aal’s I Want to Get Married


Posted by diana on 07 Oct 2010 / 0 Comments
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It reads as if the pages were lifted right from the script of Mad Men. Dozens of eager women primping and pinning every loose strand of hair into place, applying the last touch of lipstick, giving each other catty glares and then waiting, like sitting ducks, to be called upon by the handsome leading male […]

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Egyptian Spinsters and Old Maids Sitting Happily on the Shelf


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 18 Dec 2008 / 0 Comments
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I am a 21-year-old spinster. Yes, a spinster at 21. In my country, although many many Egyptian women are delaying getting married until they’re in their mid-to-late twenties, society still looks at them with a critical, disapproving gaze. “Men and women were made for one another. You are a sinister spinster.” “Better a man’s shadow […]

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