Aliaa Magda Elmahdy

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Stencil depicting Aliaa Magda Elmahdy after her self-portrait

Aliaa Magda Elmahdy ( Arabic علياء المهدي; alternative spelling Al-Mahdy, also Alia al-Mahdi; * 16th November 1991 ) is an Egyptian blogger , Femen - activist , feminist and participant of the April 6 Youth Movement . She studies film studies and lives in Sweden .

activities

She became known by posting photos on her blog in November 2011 in which she was naked except for red shoes and stockings. She described the photos as "screams against a society full of violence, racism, sexism, sexual harassment and hypocrisy".

The photos shook the whole of Egypt, as they strongly shook social conventions. As a result, Elmahdy was showered with a shit storm of death threats and escaped attempted rape. Elmahdy received global support from feminist circles, but received very little support from the Egyptian left , which feared bad publicity. In Israel, around 40 women gathered naked for a group photo to support Elmahdy.

After the publication of her self-portrait, Elmahdy called for further protest photos to be sent to her, which she published on her blog.

She left Egypt in March 2012 after being invited to a congress in Stockholm . She reported receiving death threats and being abducted. In Sweden she cooperated with Femen in an action critical of religion, in which she and two other activists exposed their bodies on December 20, 2012 in front of the Egyptian embassy in Stockholm. On Aliaa's body was the words "Sharia is not a Constitution", she was holding a Koran in front of her waist and had an Egyptian flag slung over her head. She carried out another action in June 2013 with two other Femen activists in a Stockholm mosque.

In August 2014, Elmahdy and Femen published a picture of her menstruating and defecating with another activist on the flag of the terrorist organization Islamic State .

See also

Aliaa Elmahdy's case is similar to that of Tunisian feminist Amina Tyler , who published a nude photo in 2013 with a political context and dramatic consequences.

TV report

  • Pierre Toury, Sid Ahmed Hammouche & Patrick Vallélian: Egypt: Your Act Against Sharia. In: Arte . 2013

Web links

Commons : Aliaa Magda Elmahdy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Liam Stack & David D. Kirkpatrick: Nude Blogger Riles Egyptians of All Stripes. In: The New York Times . November 17, 2011, accessed December 31, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Egypt activist posts herself nude, sparks outrage. In: Ynetnews . November 17, 2011, accessed December 31, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Amrutha Gayathri: Has Aliaa Magda Elmahdy's Nude Photography Hurt the Cause of Egypt's Liberals? In: International Business Times . November 21, 2011, accessed December 31, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Sebastian Gierke: Support for Egyptian blogger - Naked Solidarity. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 21, 2011, accessed December 31, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Group picture of Israeli supporters on Cryptome
  6. ^ Roi Kais: Israelis strip in support of Egypt blogger. In: Ynetnews . November 20, 2011, accessed December 31, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Amrutha Gayathri: Egypt's Nude Revolutionary Aliaa Elmahdy Asks Women to Publish Photographs without Veils. In: International Business Times . December 26, 2011, accessed December 31, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Mustapha Ajbaili: Egypt activist who protested nude says she wants to make change, differently ( Memento of December 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Al Arabiya News . December 21, 2012
  9. ↑ Amira Asad: The Egyptian Feminist Who Was Kidnapped for Posing Nude . In: Vice . February 14, 2014
  10. ^ Femen : Apocalypse of Muhammad. (No longer available online.) December 20, 2012, archived from the original on February 10, 2013 ; accessed on December 31, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Dominic Gover: Egypt's Aliaa Elmahdy Leads Femen Burqa Striptease in Stockholm Mosque. In: International Business Times . July 1, 2011, accessed December 31, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Chris Köver : That is why feminist activists pooped and menstruated on an IS flag . In: Vice . August 27, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Elmahdy, Aliaa Magda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES al-Mahdi, Alia; علياء المهدي (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian blogger, Femen activist, feminist and participant in the April 6th Youth Movement
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1991