1. Women’s Rights in the Middle East
By: Sara Caliskan
Afghanistan
Egypt

2. Chained to life Women in Afghanistan wear a burqa head to toe
Women must be accompanied by a man
Beaten due to showing ankles or having noisy shoes
They are not allowed to speak in public
Women’s homes windows have to be painted over
Women have male children beg for the family

3. Whipped to Tears
Women eat grass, suffer from skin disease and die from starvation
Taliban break own rules
Taliban sends own daughters to schools in other countries
Taliban took control of most of Afghanistan
But the Taliban forbids drug use
Taliban beating woman

4. No Freedom Taliban rule-All women were stripped of all human rights
Women are beaten, flogged and killed
Taliban banished women from work forces and closed schools
Taliban are composed of young men and boys who have hardly lived in Afghan
Taliban members are raised in refugee camps and trained in ultraconservative schools

5. Trapped Forever Women are considered property of males
Women can be exchanged, bought and sold
Honor killings are used for a wide range of offenses
Most marriages are arranged by fathers
People of rape are weak/vulnerable
Violence against women is being fought as human rights

6. Lost All Hope Three women every day are victims of honor killings
But women now have the right to inheritance, vote, work and the right to chose own male for marriage
Since Taliban has fell women don’t have to wear the burqa anymore and some have good positions in the government
Still women are forced into marriages and little girls are poisoned to death for wanting to go to school
30% of girls in Afghanistan have an education

7. Chances Never Taken
44=Average life expectancy for women in Afghanistan
70-80% of Afghan women are forced into marriages
An afghan women dies every 30 minutes during childbirth
8:00 pm is the curfew
All men must grow beards
Taliban considers itself a religious army

8. Prayers Needed to Say Health=non-existent for women
If widows don’t have male children, they sit in dark houses and pray
Afghanistan produces the drug opium
The Taliban collects 20% tax from opium farmers
Opium plants

9. Seems as if an Honor to Support Honor Killings
Women are the vessels of the family
Reports of honor killings in many countries
Females in the family support the attacks
Nothing that permits honor killing
Countries who don’t see domestic violence, raise their penal codes up to standards
Penal Codes Definition: A document which compiles all, or a significant amount of, a particular jurisdiction's criminal law.

10. Egypt-Serving the Wealthy
Women can buy, sell and inherit land
They can begin legal proceedings on own rights, act as witnesses, plaintiffs or defendants
Can draft civil contracts-marriage, divorce and purchasing property
Entitled to 1/3 of the property after husbands death
Peasant women worked as servants for the wealthy

11. Fighting for What’s Right
It’s possible to raise up as high as a priestess
Female rights included divorce and remarriage
Pregnancy was very important
Women known for special care to appearance and beauty

12. Fight for Hope Women had to ignore men who weren’t in family
Had to wear veil in public
After marriage men make all decisions
Not giving birth to a son was almost bad
Need at least 2 sons
A bad reputation for a women was bad for her whole family
A veil.

13. Are you Ready? No. Women have to be on best behavior
Women have chores at home and need to take care of children
Gender separation at schools and work
Some schools take girls out of school when they reach puberty
A school in Egypt.

14. I Wasn’t Prepared for This.
Women can only have 1 husband at a time, men can have up to 4
Wife can get custody of sons under 10 and daughters under 12
Women lose their right to divorce if her husband marries a 2nd wife
Husband can dispose of property without wife’s permission
Wife “owns property” husband uses it

15. Resources
"Afghanistan Online: The Plight of the Afghan Woman." Afghanistan Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Feb <
"Campaign for Afghan Women & Girls." Feminist Majority Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Feb <feminist.org/afghan/taliban_women.asp>.
Category. "Egypt - Women - Encyclopedia of Women's History." Women's History - Comprehensive Women's History Research Guide. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Feb <
"Female Rights in Ancient Egypt." Egypt Vacations - A Travel Guide to the Land of the Pharaohs. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Feb <
Johnson, Karen . "day the music died: Women in Afghanistan, The." National NOW Times 1 Mar. 1998: NA. Print.

16. Resources (Continued)
"Women's Legal Rights in Ancient Egypt." The Fathom Archive :: The University of Chicago Library :: Digital Collections. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Mar <
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