This film is the result of interviews I made with women's rights activists April 2011 in Cairo.

As a Belgian feminist starting research on Egypt, I had certain questions on what the revolution meant for women and how activists wanted to advance women's rights in this new context. I'd like to share their answers with you.

I chose to talk particularly with these women because they are all engaged within women's rights movements and organisations, some as heads of established organisations, others as younger activists within new groups.

This video by no means wants to offer any representation of Egyptian women's thoughts and experiences. Rather, by focusing on women's rights activism, I wanted to discuss the particular situation of women's rights during the revolutionary process and in the specific context of political transition.

My questions were focused on 5 topics and the film is made up likewise, with 5 chapters:

#1 Women's role during the 18 days of revolution
#2 The Mubaraks' legacy
#3 Women's rights, a Western agenda ?
#4 March 8th , International Women's Day
#5 Organising women today

All images were made in Central Cairo, Tahrir area, in the second half of April 2011. Except the chapter on March 8th which was of course filmed on March 8th.

This film could be realised thanks to the collaboration with the Belgian social-artistic organisation Victoria Deluxe vzw.

All comments are very much welcome!
You can contact me at anvanraemdonck@gmail.com