As change sweeps across the Arab world, there are a variety of lenses through which to examine these changes: religious, cultural, political, economic. Shereen El Feki has chosen a decidedly less ...

Shereen El Feki is the author of Sex and the Citadel. "I know of young women who have been returned to their families by their husbands because, as you say, they did not bleed on defloweration," ...

SEX AND THE CITADEL: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World, by Shereen El Feki (345 pages, Pantheon Books, $28.95) Men in Egypt, in the gulf, they always want to have sex in the wrong place, one ...

as presenter of the business and politics programme People & Power 07 March 2006Al Jazeera International, the 24-hour English language news and current affairs channel, set to launch its global ...

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Keeping silent about sex and limiting people’s ability to express sexuality can lead to a greater risk of HIV/Aids infection. That’s one of the arguments Shereen El Feki makes in her latest book “Sex ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Subhead: From artificial hymens to restoration surgeries, various methods have popped up to ...

Shereen El Feki says if you really want to know a people, you should look inside their bedrooms. So in 2007 she set out to investigate the sexual lives of Arabs in Egypt and other countries as a way ...

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