Shereen El Feki

Shereen El Feki is a British journalist and author, most notable for her book Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World.

El Feki was born in Great Britain to a Welsh mother and an Egyptian father. She grew up in Canada, visiting her grandmother in Cairo on a regular basis. After graduating from the University of Toronto and obtaining a PhD degree in immunology at the University of Cambridge, she joined The Economist as Healthcare Correspondent in 1998. After the 2001 WTC terror attacks, she learned Arabic and started to research the Middle East, in particular, the issues of emancipation and women's sexuality, spending much of her time in Egypt.^[1][2] In 2005, she left the Economist,^[3] and from 2006 to 2008, she hosted weekly shows, People & Power and The Pulse, on Al Jazeera International.^[2] From 2010 to 2012, she was vice-chairwoman of the United Nations’ Global Commission on H.I.V. and the Law.

In 2013, El Feki published Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World, which was translated by Thorsten Schmidt into German. The book surveys sexual attitudes of women in Muslim, or more narrowly, Arab world, and presents results of her five years of research. El Feki concludes that the Arab women are close to the changes in their personal life comparable with those introduced in Europe in 1968, and that the changes will develop slowly but would be felt already by the next generation or over two generations.^[1]

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Sources

• El Feki, Shereen (2013). Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World. Pantheon Books. 

External links

• Global Commission on HIV and the Law
• Huffington Post interview