The crowd was dressed in festive galabeyyas, Egyptian tunics. Women wore brightly colored chiffon head scarves, adorned with silver coins; Egyptian-Jewish wedding reveals world as it could be.

Women in Egypt need a vocal champion who will not interfere with their choice of clothes, career or spouse, but who will guarantee that they have access to jobs, to legal protection, ...

Egyptian law gave every child an equal inheritance. Although most women were too poor to own anything other than a cooking pot and some clothes, this meant some women were quite rich and ...