The Feminists in the Middle of Tahrir Square
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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightAt the height of the protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, I saw the crowds cleaved by a stream of girls and young women in pink and blue veils. Men formed a shield around them so they could move through the square unimpeded. When a solitary man tried to join the procession, he was turned away: “No! This is the women’s revolution.” To which one of the women added: “We are here as women, but we are speaking out for everyone.”The novelist and essayist Ahdaf Soueif, who was in the square p...