Archives: Muslim Women

Indre Andrea Monjezi Brown is the co-founder of Bildungs-und Beratungskarawane e.V in Dulsberg, one of the poorest areas in Hamburg, Germany. Ms. Monjezi Brown work is dedicated to securing rights for the Muslim migrant women of Hamburg. She is a member of the Aktionsbündnis Muslimischer Frauen Deutschland, a federation of Muslim women in Germany. She is also a former member of the women’s association Oft Schura Hamburg e. V, a federation of Hamburg mosques.

Ms. Monjezi Brown graduated from the University of Hamburg in 2004 with a dual master’s degree in European Ethnology and European Arachaeology. She recently graduated with another master’s degree in Gender and Work from the University of Hamburg.

Samah Said is the Team Leader of Violence against Women Project in National Council for Women in Cairo – Egypt, a five year project designed in partnership with NCW. The project seeks to conduct a major national study on violence against women in Egypt, build shelters to better respond to the needs of battered women, engage civil society to develop community initiatives to combat violence against women, and finally develop a national strategy on violence against women in Egypt.

Ms. Said is a professional Gender and Social Development Practitioner with almost 20 years of experience working in developing and industrialized countries in conceptualizing, planning, implementing, and evaluating projects in the gender and social development fields. Her area of interest is gender and women’s rights with special focus on women’s access to justice. Her post graduate social studies, with a special focus on gender issues, contributed immensely in developing her conceptual and analytical approaches to her work. In addition, her field work in Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt in assessing the impact of gender activities, conducting the required work for gender analysis, and delivering gender training has broadened her horizons and enriched her facilitation, communication and advocacy skills.

Ms. Said is an activist in women’s rights. She facilitates group discussions and leads various trainings with NGOs in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and other Arab countries.

Mozn Hassan is an Egyptian Feminist and the head of Nazra for Feminist Studies, a new NGO focusing on research and training based in Cairo, Egypt. Ms. Hassan’s vision is to create a new, young perspective in the arena of Egyptian and MENA activism in the field of feminism.

Prior to the initiative in Feminist Studies, Ms. Hassan has been involved with various NGOs throughout Egypt. She has also served as a legal researcher for the American University in Cairo for projects on Shari’a, criminal justice and Human Rights in MENA. Outside of her NGO work, she has extensive experience as a trainer and researcher on women’s rights issues.

Ms. Hassan earned her BA in Greco Roman Studies from Alexandria University in 2000. She then went on to earn a diploma in Civil Society and Human Rights at Cairo University in 2002. She earned her MA at the American University in Cairo in 2005 for International Human Rights Law. Her thesis was titled “Legal Interpretations to the Right of Divorce and Polygamy and the Egyptian Feminist Movement.”

Azza Kamel is the director of Appropriate Communication Techniques for Development (ACT) and the founder of Women Research Centre. Ms. Kamel, over the past 16 years, has worked as a women activist to fight violence against women, in advocating equality between men and women, and as a social development and gender expert conceptualizing, planning, implementing and evaluating projects in the social development field and women’s projects for various public, private and NGOs.

Ms. Kamel is an experienced resource person in a wide area of gender and women’s issues, in addition to human rights, communication, community health, education, civic education, media monitoring, and environment issues. She has extensive experience in designing training programs, monitoring and evaluation techniques and qualitative social science needs assessment.

Ms. Kamel is completing a Ph.D. in Civic Education and has earned diplomas in Mathematics, Astronomy, Computer Science, and Education, as well as certificates in Gender Policy and Planning, and Health Communications. She is a member of Karama’s Egypt group, where she coordinates the Media realm, and is the regional coordinator of the Arab Network for Monitoring the Image of Men and Women in Media.

Ms. Kamel is the national coordinator of the Egyptian Network for monitoring the image of men and women in media and the national coordinator of Aswatna group for voter education, formed of Egyptian CSOs.

She has published many studies on the image of men and women in music videos, in television commercials, in press, in television drama series, in caricatures, etc.

Eman Fawzi is the Executive Director of the Egyptian Association for Society Development in Cairo, Egypt. Ms. Fawzi’s work focuses on the elimination of practices such as female genital mutilation/female genital cutting. She has also contributed greatly to the formation of classes at the Egyptian Association specifically aimed to improve the education of its one hundred female students. The Egyptian Association of Society Development has worked closely with the American Society for Muslim Advancement, Global Fund, and Mama Cash..

Ms. Fawzi is an expert in the field of Egyptian and Islamic archaeology. She is a regular lecturer at the Egyptian and Islamic Museum and several archaeology sites throughout Egypt.