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The mass protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square during the 2011 Egyptian revolution garnered global media attention. The stories that received less attention were the incidents of harassment and abuse endured by women participants. To draw attention to the violence women faced then, and on an ongoing basis, one young woman, Nihal Saad Zaghloul, began connecting with others through social media.
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English, L.M., Irving, C.J. (2015). Network Feminism and Social Movement Learning. In: Feminism in Community. International Issues in Adult Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-202-8_5
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