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Exploring Taboos Project

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    My name is Ramy Raoof and I am working with Nazra for Feminist Studies as media consultant
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    I’m Mozn, the Executive Director of Nazra for Femininst Studies
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    My name is Fatma Emam, a researcher with Nazra, and I was a coordinator for the first round of the Exploring Taboos project.
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    The idea of the project simply came to us because we as the Nazra team have ideas and specific principles.
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    During the time that we’re trying to work on the subject
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    we search for others in other societies around to see who also believe in the same ideas
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    we’re trying to make different creativities that reflect our ideas that we believe in
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    And we were thinking how to find other people to discuss with them about topics that are often taboo
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    and how we can help them to express their opinion by using different tools
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    Our opinion within the Nazra team is that we must speak about things that nobody speaks about, issues that the civil society, governorates, foundations,
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    and research centers in Egypt do not speak about
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    we saw that nobody speaks about taboos.
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    The most important things that people discuss is their strong opinion about topics related to religion or gender
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    and the issues that related to the general sexual culture
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    We thought that in order to start to break these taboo, we must try to explore the taboo and to try to know the taboo
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    and to know about the background that makes it forbidden to speak about
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    The first round in Exploring Taboos project was comprised of four participants who decided to create their own blogs
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    My name is Nawara Magdy Belal
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    I joined the first round of the Exploring Taboos project
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    for me the idea was very interesting because I do not work in a feminist organization
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    but all of my life, I thought about topics we normally don’t speak about with people except for internal discussions
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    From the beginning, we had the idea to gather men and women with one another
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    in order to give them the chance to speak about things they don’t speak about!
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    The idea is that one is trying to break through the ground to find something underneath, it’s the same here.. You’re not only trying to give people some principles
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    But you face culture and long lasting traditions. And other ideas that have been built in their minds all their lives.
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    And other ideas that cannot be changed easily
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    I posted in my blog and one of the posts was titled "I Am Not an Asexual Creature"
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    which my expression of a person who was passing through difficult circumstances related to my weight
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    and it also represented me and my sexual and emotional needs
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    and how i deal with this and how other people deal with the same issues
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    Twitter was the first website that allows for micro blogging since it was launched in 2006
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    the idea is simply to give the user the chance to publish news or information in 140 characters
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    and there are also other websites that allow for 200 character limit like Watwat.
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    The Nazra team is very caring and stands behind the participants through technical and information support
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    we are always discussing with youth and with the participants by exploring taboos
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    by discussion of any topic without any worries from themselves or society
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    Exploring Taboos is not a project with specific dates or funding dates
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    This project will be always a safe space for all interested people to come and share their ideas
Title:
Exploring Taboos Project
Video Language:
Arabic

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