1. There is gender-based violence from the state, in the home, in the streets. It is embedded in the social norm,” Elhameed said. “There is also symbolic sexual violence: when you have a family with limited resources and they choose to send the boy to school and not the girl. That is symbolic violence.
    — Read Nina Burleigh’s article at TDB on the lawsuit brought by Samira Ibrahim and Egypt’s sexual harassment problem here.
     
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