Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
25 - 31 May 2000
Issue No. 483
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Pot

Pourri
A day at the office
By Fayza Hassan

Freedom -- at a price
The fear that women will use their new right to khul' irrationally, thereby breaking up families across the nation, still lingers. But women's realities tell a very different story, writes Mariz Tadros
Restaurants
A doll's house
Injy El-Kashef relives her childhood
Sufra Dayma
By Moushira Abdel-Malek
Veal medallions in tomato sauce
Huda Sha'rawi
Huda Sha'rawi 		Safiyya Zaghlul
Safiyya Zaghlul
EGYPTIAN women can now obtain a divorce through proceedings they initiate themselves, but they continue to pay a high price in terms of both the financial rights they are required to forsake and the social pressure they must withstand. Has the new Procedural Personal Status Law brought their condition any closer to the emancipation of which such feminist pioneers as Safiyya Zaghlul and Huda Sha'rawi dreamed in the early years of the past century? Only time -- yet more time -- will tell
 
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