Newsfront

March, 2012

A Beautiful Truthcairo—A 20-year-old university student who posted a nude photo of herself online elicited angry responses from both extremes of the Egyptian politi­cal spectrum. Aliaa Magda Elmahdy said she added the photo to A Rebel's Diary (arebelsdiary.blogspot.com) to protest continuing sexism and hypoc­risy in postrevolutionary Egypt. Writing in English, she encouraged those who would condemn or silence her to first "undress and stand before a mirror and burn your bodies that you desp...