A woman president of Egypt?
Bothaina Kamel, an Egyptian television anchor and activist, has the distinction of being the first woman to run for the president of Egypt. Her motto, “My agenda is Egypt,” and her activist background shows that she certainly has the credentials to run as an advocate for the people in the historic September elections.
According to Abdalla F. Hassan of the New York Times, Kamel is known as “the woman who is like a hundred men” for her active role in pro-democracy rallies over the years. She acted as a human shield for youth demonstrators and her presidential campaign focuses on “fighting the dual evils of poverty and corruption.”
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Looks interesting to me. I don't know much about her beyond this a few other articles on her candidacy, but the idea of a woman running Egypt may be sensible change.
are crazy ppl :D
moreover she is a figurehead even in her home country :P
Is she Canadian krazy ? :P
Their head of state is the queen, isn't she?
AHT Bangladesh has female head of state for a while and they are an Islamic country.
Canada had just 1 female PM in its long history. Why this discrepancy?
Like what you say Nic -
and if you look at the UK - some of our best monarchs have been female and of course there is Maggie Thatcher, you may dislike her politics but she had some big conjones!!
ROFL Nic.. Good one!!
Ram,
its not that the men in your country were doing a better job!
well, why not! viva chaos!!!!
well that's the worst thing that gonna happen in the history of Egypt.
They can barely drive in the street and now they wanna rule a country ..
2012 Olympics,
You are as British as I am a Taliban admirer ;)
How come a retrograde ultraconservative is using the logo and the nationality of Western nation?!
PS, Egypt is trying to become a democracy. Who are you to say if a person is or not going to be president?
Go and vote as all other Egyptians and the elected person will be the president. Is this a new concept to you, British-wanna-be…lol?
there starts the personal insults
AHT - can you shed some light on this.
1020-24 Regent Naib us Sultanat Sitt al-Moluk of Egypt
Also known as the Lady of Cairo, her name means "Lady of Power", and assumed power after having arranged the "disappearance" of her brother Imam Hakim bin Amr Allah. She had his son al-Zahir proclaimed Imam and Caliph and she became regent. She appointed competent ministers, managed to setting the economy in order and brought peace to the country. (d. 1024)
Will be interesting to know the outcome of her campaign. Personally judging by the Egyptians we know here(and gosh,that's a lot) I doubt she will succeed, but hey surprising things do happen, right?
Thousands years b4 but after islam its not legal
yes, its a really breaking news for Arabs nations and for egypt itslef.
... and also a few thousand years back: Hatshepsut and Cleopatra!
Egypt had a female ruler a few hundred years back.
She should not be president. Frenchieman you are insulting Egyptians by posting this garbage about female presidents in Egypt. Feminists do not say I am bad but this woman may be very smart but president is not her place.