When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.


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This country has a long history of defining its generations by the conflicts that should have killed...
OMAR EL AKKAD
A holy moonlit night turned into day, when the Sun appeared from the bosom of the Light—the Most H...
KARIM EL KOUSSA
When the wind blows in your face,
when you feel you are losing your head,
when the going g...
MALAK EL HALABI
Do you ever get that feeling where you don't want to talk to anyone anymore? You just want to be lef...
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB
If you reveal who you truly are, you will attract the people who will most complement your life
EL HAJI NERO
Your pain and consequences are your greatest teachers; your pain is your internal motivation which c...
EL HAJI NERO
As much as I want to let you go and move on, I simply can't. Even though it hurts to hold on to you,...
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB
Sometimes you just have to fight the tears, keep smiling and say everything will be okay.
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB
Sometimes you have to stop trying with some people. If they care, they'll make an effort.
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB
You know I was there for you every single moment. You weren't there when I really needed you. You pr...
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB
Sorry I had to let you go but I couldn’t hold on anymore. It kills me to let you go but its even w...
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB
I once knew a girl that meant the world to me, she was just amazing. She's that one girl in my life ...
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB
I still remember the time you were almost mine. The time I almost told I loved you, but I just could...
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB
Do not be afraid of climbing the stair case of your dreams slowly instead be afraid only of standing...
EL HAJI NERO
I still remember the days when you were here with me. The days I looked at you and you were already ...
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB
Work with or around or over or under the circumstances that you face but never lose sight of your de...
EL HAJI NERO
I am with the American people. I share their pain. I share their grief, whether he was involved or n...
AICHA EL WAFI
He who coordinates his thoughts with his actions controls his own destiny.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey
AMUNHOTEP EL BEY
He who perseveres like an infant that falls down and keeps getting up, shall eventually find the way...
AMUNHOTEP EL BEY
I am tied to my father's land and am happy to visit relatives in Egypt, but I feel Italian and w...
STEPHAN EL SHAARAWY
[Randle El couldn't assess the likelihood of Miller punting to him, as opposed to out of bounds.] I ...
ANTWAAN RANDLE EL
High buildings fall, black oceans rise, and coins sink in height
Where weapons smash in every ...
YEHYA EL KOUZI
We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have ...
SHEREEN EL FEKI
You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
AMUNHOTEP EL BEY
Only gravity can hold me down; only myself can hold me back.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey
AMUNHOTEP EL BEY
It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one...
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN
كان الوطن الذي اجتاح كل ابتساماتي في الغربة.
MALAK EL HALABI
دعني أحرق الماضي بجمر عينيك.. دعني أحرقه ورقة ورقة..
MALAK EL HALABI
Baba always used to say that as we age, things change, we become more rigid, and then eventually, mo...
YASMINE EL RASHIDI
Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain des...
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN
I watched you storm towards the restaurant door. It was a chilly December morning and the birds sitt...
MALAK EL HALABI
There was warmth in his large piercing brown eyes. The kind of warmth that tucks a child into bed. T...
MALAK EL HALABI
This is the last time we have breakfast together:
our warm coffee mugs on the kitchen table
MALAK EL HALABI
African football officials have to have another look at the African game because Europeans are going...
EL HADJI DIOUF
African football officials have to take another look at the African game because the Europeans are g...
EL HADJI DIOUF
African football officials have to take another look at the African game because Europeans are going...
EL HADJI DIOUF
In Tunisia we didn't deserve to go out and today we didn't deserve it either...we have to look at re...
EL HADJI DIOUF
I think the wrong teams are going to the World Cup.
EL HADJI DIOUF
I know this is a very, very hard game but everybody is ready to go and fight it.
EL HADJI DIOUF
People in Senegal are very angry that we've missed out on the World Cup. The biggest present I could...
EL HADJI DIOUF
We share the same houses, even graveyards. It has been the same for years.
EL HADJ DIOP
Officially, we Muslims don?t celebrate Christmas. But the Catholics are our neighbors. So, we all ce...
EL HADJ DIOP
...we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose...
AMAL EL-MOHTAR
It said Marwan needs money, and I knew he was in Afghanistan,
MOUNIR EL MOTASSADEQ