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Facebook campaigns denounce Egyptian films that degrade women

Several Egyptian groups have emerged to denounce locally made films they believe are degrading to women and to demand legislation to protect women.
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Several rights groups have criticized the Egyptian movie industry lately. Calls for boycotting film screenings have spread on Facebook and Twitter to protest how Egyptian cinema is portraying women: by allegedly insulting them and legitimizing their harassment.

A group calling itself Shoft Tahrosh (Harassment Seen), which fights harassment of women in Cairo, has asserted that filmmakers have badly portrayed women in this season’s films, which were first screened during Eid al-Adha.

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