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ELITE
Vol.1

Issue 59

September
2023

I received direct and explicit threats to me as a
The Ministry of Immigration was taken over
lady residing in Britain, in addition to the
by ladies, other than the Ministry of Culture,
attacks on social media, until I had to take
the Ministry of Economy, and the Ministry of
legal action and involve the police in the
Tourism, which was taken over by Dr. Rania
matter. To this extent, the war reached this
Al-Mashat, and now international
entity and the personality representing it at the
cooperation, social solidarity, and others. The
beginning of my attempt to do useful work.
woman has a status that does not allow anyone
The second reason is that I am considered the
to question her ability to lead. On the other
only lady who took the position of president hand, it is reasonable for this to happen in
of the Egyptian community in the world. Britain, a country where women take their
Unfortunately, no matter how open we are to rights before men. But these problems have
the world and travel to many countries in been and still face me, and the war continues
Europe and America, some of our people still and does not stop, I established the council
have biased ideas against women. Of course, I teams eight years ago, and I still fight to this
have a lot of members with me, and the very day in illegal ways and undesirable forms and
famous sentence that was directed to the men twisted ways. Some may try to accuse me,
who were with me was: How do you work report me to the authorities, or talk about my
according to the orders of a woman? And how life personality and honor to the utmost
do you allow her to make decisions? But undesirable and dishonorable competition. I
between me and my colleagues, there is love asked before in a high-level session about the
and continuous cooperation, and therefore reason for these disputes, are we not all trying
they were not affected by these annoyances to help people voluntarily without receiving a
and stopped them at their limit. But we were wage for it? I speak on behalf of myself and the
exposed to a kind of dishonorable war, which Union with all its members and confirm that
is to question the ability of a woman to we do not make a material gain from this
manage this entity. But this is not the world work, but rather we often contribute to it from
we live in now, nor the direction taken by His our money when there are problems that
Excellency the President, and the best evidence require solving. Perhaps we do not cost as
for that is the number of ministers who took much as the brothers in the Gulf, who collect
positions in our government. He has huge amounts of money to please the sponsor
determined for us the number of seats in the and help their brothers, connected to
House of Representatives, as he has businessmen on a permanent and daily basis.
5 determined for the file of women, as well as for

the file of Egyptians abroad.