Thanks

Being clear and unbiased reporting, negative or not si what we should all strive for.

This, however for me didn’t quite manage that.

Personally, I didn’t get the choice of a Danish reporter and why there was the need to compare Egypt at every point to Denmark.

The episode was meant to talk about marriage but it seemed like it became fixated on the hijab. Why the debate about wearing the hijab or not wearing it even made it to air is beyond me. The focus was on Marriage in Egypt and not women in Egypt. For me it should never have come to that and so in that regard I have to agree with Dr Kotb, that there seemed to have been an agenda.

There are alot os issues in regard to womens rights and equity in Egypt that we can spend days discussing but I don’t wish to do so here simply because I think it’s not what the focus of this should have been.

There is alot of beauty,joy and happiness in weddings and marriage in egypt and I think that should have been highlighted in this episode.

I think that the questions were posed encouraged a very competitive/playing on against the other kind of discourse. Im going to take a guess and say that in another situation, having these women sit and talk about this over a cup of cofee they might have held the same opinions but it would have come across quite differently

Now that I learn it was supposed to be about marriage, it really feels like the emphasis was put so much on the negative (a *failed* marriage – divorce). I still don’t agree with Kotb and her outrage. Even if it wasn’t so much about the marriage itself in the end, what it *did* talk about was well-presented given the time constraint for the segment.

I have to mention that the Danish woman really didn’t get it. She was pretty darn useless and simply didn’t understand Egyptians and it showed.

It sounded like one could cut the tension with a knive when it came to the annoying H topic (hijab) between those who wore it and those that didn’t. Can someone tell me why there was that tension. Why was there the need attack each others believes on it?

I’m all for portraying a “clearer image”,but not one that is biased. There are tons of problems in Egypt(I should know since I live here),but what country is without them?
A “clearer” image,in my opinion,is one that shows a slightly better picture for a change.One that shows the positive aspects along with the negative,not only the negative.

In light of that, it’s a miracle life in Egypt is as rich and energetic as it is. To single out one aspect or another and try to paint a picture of the whole country with it is unfair.

How do you talk about marriage in a Muslim country (or any country for that matter) without talking about sex, religion, and the the veil (or gender relations)?

Now, obviously, the Danish host had an agenda because she compared everything to Denmark. She was pretentious in her speech instead of accepting what things in Egypt are like. I was extremely disappointed in her judgments of women in tight clothes, make up and scarves. What’s her business?

Truth be told. Egypt oppresses women, especially when it comes to the legal system. Women have no rights without a man. A few things were highlighted in the show.

You make it sound like as if the majority of Egyptian women are in the same boat and have problems, when it is far more complex and isn’t the case.

So your post and glee at the fact that some issues have been highlighted, doesn’t mean that its a fair portrayal. Egypt is not a utopia, but it is far too easy to make a sweeping statement about it.

And why in the world does any of it come down to Hijab at all? Just shows how pathetic and fixated western media is still with the Hijab.