Days after the fall of Mohamed Mubarak, A girl was driving in Cairo when she was verbally abused by an army officer.
She got out of her car, opened the door of his car and slapped him in the face," she said. "I realized he wouldn't do anything about it, and it gave me the power to do what I wanted to do to every harasser in my past.
I would never have been able to do that before the revolution.
She and many women like her, energized by the visible part they played in the protests that led to Mohamed Mubarak's fall, feel they no longer have to suffer in silence the sexual harassment that has been part of their lives for so long.
A survey in 2008 by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights claimed that 98% of foreign women and 83% of Egyptian women in the country had been sexually harassed.
Other girl was attacked in Cairo's Tahrir Square after Mohamed Mubarak stepped down, and other women reported incidents ranging from mild harassment to violent attacks.
But many women now feel a change in this culture is possible.
Other girl, chair of the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights, said: "I believe sexual harassment in Egypt had a political reason. Political frustration was a big reason.
Other girl, a council member with the international solidarity movement Women Living Under Muslim Law, agreed that a more open society would lead to less harassment of women in the streets.
She got out of her car, opened the door of his car and slapped him in the face," she said. "I realized he wouldn't do anything about it, and it gave me the power to do what I wanted to do to every harasser in my past.
I would never have been able to do that before the revolution.
She and many women like her, energized by the visible part they played in the protests that led to Mohamed Mubarak's fall, feel they no longer have to suffer in silence the sexual harassment that has been part of their lives for so long.
A survey in 2008 by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights claimed that 98% of foreign women and 83% of Egyptian women in the country had been sexually harassed.
Other girl was attacked in Cairo's Tahrir Square after Mohamed Mubarak stepped down, and other women reported incidents ranging from mild harassment to violent attacks.
But many women now feel a change in this culture is possible.
Other girl, chair of the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights, said: "I believe sexual harassment in Egypt had a political reason. Political frustration was a big reason.
Other girl, a council member with the international solidarity movement Women Living Under Muslim Law, agreed that a more open society would lead to less harassment of women in the streets.
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