Sexual Harassment: the Dark Side of Tahrir Square

Bina Shah* | 29 Jun 2012

Lubna Ezzat, an engineer, protests against sexual harassment in Tahrir Square, Cairo, on Friday June 8, 2012. (Photo credit:Mohamed Muslemany) A few days ago British journalist Natasha Smith published a long and anguished account of being sexually assaulted at the hands of a mob in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. She described how she was attacked by numerous men, her...