CAIRO: Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani has left much of the Islamic world in an uproar over her nude image in a French magazine, which she then posted on Facebook. The actress has spoken out, saying she wanted to make a symbolic gesture about nudity and sex. “This video clip is a symbolic gesture to remove [...]
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CAIRO: An Iranian actress who posted nude photos of herself on Facebook has been attacked by the Iranian government, calling her “anti-Islam” and demanding that she be put to death for “blasphemy.” Golshifteh Farahani came to stardom at the age of 14 when she appeared in the film Pearl Tree, but jumped to international fame [...]
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CAIRO: Egypt’s controversial “Nude Blogger” Aliaa al-Mahdy on Monday asked women who want to remove their veils to send her photographs to publish them online. It comes only weeks after she posted a full-frontal image of herself on her blog, sparking massive criticism from both liberals and conservatives alike in Egypt. Mahdy called on women [...]
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CAIRO: Pakistani actress Veena Malik has sparked another “nude photo controversy,” after appearing on the cover of the latest edition of the glossy men’s magazine India FHM, with the initials of Pakistan’s feared and powerful intelligence agency on her arm. Her photo spread like a wildfire in social network websites. This nude controversy, however, appears [...]
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A semi-nude photo published by a Tunisian actress has stirred some negative responses from people around the Arab world after the actress appeared wearing revealing clothes and was compared to Egyptian activist Aliya Magda Mahdy, who posted a full frontal of herself on her blog. Mahdy was also met with massive anger and over one [...]
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CAIRO: In continued antagonism and attacks, the Facebook page of Aliaa Mahdy, the Egyptian blogger who posted a full-frontal image of herself on her blog, was attacked by Yemeni activists. The hackers claimed they were supporting the Egyptian revolution. The vast majority of Egyptian society, from liberals to conservatives, lashed out at the young blogger [...]
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CAIRO: Controversial Egyptian blogger Aliaa Mahdy, who posed completely naked and posted the image on her personal blog launched a campaign last week, calling on men in the country to wear the headscarf in solidarity with women. Although the Facebook page was taken down after it was hit by massive amounts of complaints, the blogger, [...]
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CAIRO: A new Facebook fan page has emerged in Egypt in solidarity with embattled blogger Aliaa Mahdy, who controversially posted a nude photo of herself online, sparking massive anger from both liberals and conservatives in the country. Pushed by Egyptians, Nude Revolutionary Photos, aims to promote the idea that Mahdy, and other women, have the [...]
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As an act of solidarity with Egypt’s Aliya el-Mahdy, 40 Israeli women posed for a nearly naked photo in protest of limited expression in Egypt, however, not fully displaying their intimate parts for the camera. “Girls, let’s give the world a good reason to see the unique beauty of Israeli women. Regardless of whether they [...]
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CAIRO: The first legal move against the nude revolutionary pictures have occurred as the Coalition of Islamic law graduates filed a case against activist Aliya Magda al-Mahdy and her boyfriend, and blogger, Kareem Amer, on Thursday accusing them of “violating morals, inciting indecency and insulting Islam.” The report, which was submitted to the general prosecutor, [...]
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CAIRO: Despise Aliya Mahdy or not, she has done what few revolutionaries in Egypt have been able to do: take revolutionary action. Her public display of her naked body in a blog post has seen attacks from the conservative Islamists and the liberals alike. Nudity, especially female nudity, leaves people queasy. Had she been a [...]
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CAIRO: Last week, the Dubai-based Saudi TV station MBC aired a movie without cutting a scene which revealed a pair of breasts. The company received major criticism from its customers, and MBC issued an apology almost immediately. In Egypt, a woman posts a picture of herself in full nude on her blog and Twitter becomes [...]
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