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Yomna Mokhtar

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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