October 26, 2012 7:11 pm

The Muslim sisterhood

The female activists in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood whose voices are now being heard

To the outside world, Egypt’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood appears to be exclusively male. But behind the scenes and on the street women are now stepping out of the shadows

  • Menna, Heba Tallah, Asmaa and Heba Ahmed of the Nour group, a new Muslim Brotherhood-backed student organisation in Egypt
  • The four women on the campus of Ain Shams university in Cairo, where they are law students
  • Students sit beside a fountain in Ain Shams university, Cairo
  • Nermeen Mohamed Hassan, a 35-year-old teacher, photographed beside the Nile at a club for staff and teachers of the university
  • Twins Rawan and Rawda are among the youngest in Nasr City’s Muslim sisters group
  • Oumayma Kamel, 51, presidential adviser: ‘Men and women have the same rights and responsibilities but I know that there are differences, it’s biological. Being a mother is a woman’s most important job, it’s fundamental,’ she says
  • Muslim sisters take notes during a lecture by Dr Manal al-Hassan at the Freedom and Justice party’s headquarters in downtown Cairo. A party official and communications professor, al-Hassan lectures women on the power of the media
  • Muslim sisters take a break during Dr Manal al-Hassan’s lecture at the FJP’s headquarters
  • Female students at Ain Shams university, Cairo
  • Women arrive at a school in Al Saf village for a meeting organised by the Muslim sisters
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