Friday, November 9, 2007
It's 60% women.
Interviewer: What is the front?[...]
Mursi Nuweishi: There is a misuse of the rights [of women]. This misuse is detrimental to the women themselves and to their interests.
Interviewer: Before we talk about this misuse, what drove you to form this front of yours now, and how would you characterize it?
Mursi Nuweishi: We realized that there is a misuse of [women's] rights.
Interviewer: So what did you do?
Mursi Nuweishi: The Egyptian women – my mother, my sister, my daughter, my wife – have more freedom than they should have. They demanded their rights, and received very many rights, including the recent ruling that they can become judges. So we men want to demand our rights too, because we feel that our rights have been neglected.
Interviewer: So you established the front.
Mursi Nuweishi: Yes.
Interviewer: How many members do you have?
Mursi Nuweishi: We have about 250-300 activists – these are people who convene, and so on.
Interviewer: I expect they are all men.
Mursi Nuweishi: 60% of the members are women.
Interviewer: There are women in the Front for the Struggle against Domineering Women?
Mursi Nuweishi: One of them decided, just today, to form an association [of women] in support of men. She is, incidentally, a senior official in the Foreign Ministry, and the wife of one of the senior ambassadors.
He's met my wife? ;-)
BHG