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“When the prime minister came to Tahrir to speak to the people, was he blind? Did he not see that half of the people filling the square were women?”
Tuesday, Mar. 08, 2011

Open quoteWhen the Prime Minister came to Tahrir to speak to the people, was he blind? Did he not see that half of the people filling the square were women?Close quote

  • NEHAD ABU EL KOMSAN
  • of the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights, saying women must be included in the country's political process; activists staged a "Million Woman March" in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday
Photo: Carsten Koall / Getty Images | Source: Christian Science Monitor