Shereen El Feki

Shereen El Feki (born 1968) is a British journalist and author, most notable for her book Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World. She was born in Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain to a Welsh people Welsh mother and an Egyptian Muslim father. Quotes We must understand the lived realities of men and boys as individuals in order to move toward equality for women and girls, and to effect change. Progressive laws on gender equality are necessary but not sufficient if you don’t also address community and family attitudes and actions. In many cases, in the Arab region, one sees progressive laws, which actually have very little impact in everyday life because of family controls and constraints on women. Sexuality, Gender Equality, and the Arab Region: Interview with Shereen El Feki on International Women’s Day If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms. Now sexuality is an incredibly powerful lens with which to study any society, because what happens in our intimate lives is reflected by forces on a bigger stage: in politics and economics, in religion and tradition, in gender and generations. A little-told tale of sex and sensuality External links Category:Women authors from the United Kingdom Category:LGBT people Category:1970 births Category:Living people Category:Women journalists from the United Kingdom Category:Non-fiction authors from the United Kingdom Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:University of Toronto alumni Category:Women born in the 1970s