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Wrestler Rodaina Gamal, 15, in action during a training session at the one-room Manshiya club in El Mansoura, Egypt, December 15, 2025.

From small hall to big dreams, Egypt’s girl wrestlers defy the odds

Arab Women

Egyptian founder of ‘Wanas El-Hekayat’, a platform to support women to heal and voice their opinions through storytelling workshops, Zahra Abdellah talks during an interview in Cairo, March 7, 2022.

Viral metro incident highlights rising gender-based violence in Egypt

Women's Rights

A Tunisian woman looks at clothes at a market in Tunis

Domestic abuse in Tunisia spikes during lockdown

Arab Women

Tunisian MP Zouheir Makhlouf

Protests in Tunisia against immunity for MP accused of indecency

Arab Women

Tunisia is considered a pioneer on women's rights in the Arab world

Triggered by MP's disgrace, Tunisia's #MeToo breaks taboos

Arab Women

Women gesture and carry candles as they march during ongoing anti-government protests in Beirut

Lebanon's women protest a double burden

Cinema

Moroccan actress Nisrin Erradi, Moroccan film director Maryam Touzani and Moroccan producer Nabil Ayouch

Cannes hails 'heartrending' Moroccan film

Arab Women

Moroccan mountaineer Bouchra Baibanou is pictured in her home with her trophies in the Sidi Moussa district of Sale near Rabat on November 29, 2018.

Moroccan climber inspires girls to conquer fears

Arab Women

Palestinian fashion designer Yasmeen Mjalli speaks while standing in her clothing shop where her label collection "BabyFist" carrying anti-sexual harassment slogans is showcased, in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on December 19, 2018.

Palestinian fashion designer seeks to empower women

Arab Women

A woman migrant and her child sit at the Tunisian port of Ben Guerdane, some 40km west of the Libyan border

Arab women take to the ‘death boats’ of illegal migration

Shirine al-Daydamouni

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