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Allison Nour

Allison Nour is a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations.

VOICES: The Politics of Egypt’s Rape, Sexual Assault Epidemic

In a powerful scene from the 2010 Egyptian film “678,” a veiled woman boards a crowded public bus on her way to work, squeezing through a mass of passengers in search of a space where she will feel least vulnerable to attack. Inevitably, though, groping hands reach her and she has no choice but More »