I am very sad to hear that Hafez has died. When I first became a journalist in Cairo in 1990, I used to interview him frequently for articles on human rights in #Egypt. My condolences to his family and loved ones. english.ahram.org.eg/News/395669.as…
cw: torture, rape
I first met Hafez in 1989/90 when I went to the annual conference of the #Egyptian Organization for Human Rights. He introduced me to a woman who had come from southern Egypt to demand they help her get justice.
I first met Hafez in 1989/90 when I went to the annual conference of the #Egyptian Organization for Human Rights. He introduced me to a woman who had come from southern Egypt to demand they help her get justice.
I have never forgotten that woman and I will always appreciate human rights defenders in #Egypt then and now who fight the military-backed dictatorship and its crimes.
The extract above is from my book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
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