re: Egypt

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Her story, while not uncommon in Egypt in recent years, with reports of more and more women being killed by their family members in “honor” crimes, has finally come to light, but after two other women were killed near Egypt’s second city of Alexandria in late February, Sarah believes more energy and discussion must be made on the subject for it to end.

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Rape is one of the most common crimes in Egypt.[1] Marital rape is not illegal in Egypt. By 2008, the U.N. quoted Egypt's Interior Ministry's figure that 20,000 rapes take place every year, although according to the activist Engy Ghozlan (ECWR), rapes are 10 times higher than the stats given by Interior Ministry, making it 200,000 per year.[2] Mona Eltahawy has also noted the same figure (200,000), and added that this was before the revolution, and that today the number is actually higher.[3] Rapes have been carried out during festivals and the Egyptian protests, and include the public rapes of women, and female journalists.

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Rapes are usually not reported in Egypt, due to the fear of social rejection, and culturally it is not accepted.

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According to the US State Department country report, "honour crimes" are not actually illegal in Egypt.[citation needed] Farah Shash, a psychologist explains that young boys are rarely stopped or opposed by their parents for molesting girls publicly, it's because the children always saw the same behavior around them. Shash further adds that "Often, families will just laugh".[5] According Seif el-Dawla who runs a center in the country told that "Sexual molestation and harassment ... is routine for women who come across police".

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Among the masses dancing, singing and honking horns, more than 80 women were subjected to mob sexual assaults, harassment or rape. In Tahrir Square since Sunday, when protests against Morsi first began, there have been at least 169 counts of sexual mob crime.

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a report by the Thomson Reuters Foundation shows that Cairo is the world’s most dangerous megacity for women, and has become more perilous since the 2011 uprisings.

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"Everything about the city is difficult for women. We see women struggling in all aspects. Even a simple walk on the street, and they are subjected to harassment, whether verbal or even physical," Egyptian journalist and women's rights campaigner Shahira Amin said.

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Attitudes about sexual harassment in Egypt are at the core of the problem. As in many places, though to a more extreme degree, women in Egypt are blamed for inviting sexual harassment for activities as benign as laughing in public. Those beliefs are inculcated in Egyptians from a young age, and are held by girls as well as boys.

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A 2015 Egypt Health Issues Survey found that roughly nine in every 10 females suffers partial or total removal of external genitalia, despite the practice having been outlawed in 2008.

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The country topped the list of places that are dangerous for women to visit in a Trip.com survey released in August, in large part due to the verbal and sexual harassment that women routinely face there.

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I went diving by Aqaba, Jordan in the Red Sea ... mind blowing experience and by far better than any I had done in Costa Rica / Colombia. Water was crystal clear and you could see 150 feet in any direction. I highly recommend it.

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I honestly went there thinking I would be blasé about the pyramids. I was still blown away.

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Apologies for the disjointed "review" below, I'm no travel blogge

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