Egyptian Women and a Fresh Outlook on Divorce · Global Voices
Marwa Rakha

Divorce has always been a stigma in the Egyptian society. Today, the winds of change are blowing this away.
Blogger Shaymaa El Gammal blogged about  an online radio dedicated to divorced women. Quoting Mahasen Saber, the owner of I want a divorce blog and radio, she wrote:
Quoting Youm7 Newspaper Hayat blogs about the second program saying:
And about the third program she writes:
While the fourth one is:
Blogger Eman Hashim posted a coinciding article entitled “We are to blame”:
اللى ربى الراجل على ان المطلقة دى واحدة هاتموت و تبقى مع اى راجل و لو نص ساعة الست
و اللى قبلت انها عشان كبرت فى السن فمش من حقها تطلب اى طلبات و عادى انها تتجوز متجوز عشان تشتغ له شغالة ست
اللى ربت بنتها انها تقبل اى اهانة فى الخطوبة عشان تتجوز لحسن ده خلاص مفيش عرسان ست
و اللى انضربت قدام ابنها و بنتها و ما قالتش حاجة لحست تتطلق و المطلقة دى سبة … برضه ست
And finally Asser Yasser shared some recent statistics (September 2008) about Egyptian women lest the state of panic over finding a man resides:
Previously it was noted that the ratio was 1 male : 4 females.