Under the auspicious of Prof. Dr. Mohammad Othman Al-Khosht, President of Cairo University, and Prof. Dr Mohamed Sami Abdel Sadik, Vice President of the University for Community Service and Environmental Development, and the support of Prof. Dr. Hanan Gunaid, Dean of the Faculty, and under the supervision of Prof Dr. Thuraya Albadawi Head of the Center, the Center for Women`s Research and Studies at the Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University, will organize a symposium under the title "Egypt... and combating violence against women", next Tuesday, December 6, 2022, at twelve o`clock in the afternoon.

.

Among the guest speakers, Dr. Mona Al-Hadidi, member of Media Committee of the National Council for Women and professor at Cairo University, Counselor Alaa Al-Shimi, Undersecretary of the Women, Children and Human Rights Sector at the Ministry of Justice, and the artist Mohamed Tharwat, and Dr. Nahed Abdel Hamid, director of the Hanager Cultural Forum at the Egyptian Opera House, representing the Ministry of Culture. .

The activities of the symposium include the guest speakers listening first to the students’ discussions and their vision on social issues that concern the youth in the first place, then discussing everything related to violence and its forms and how to combat it, and introducing the 16-day global campaign to combat violence against women and what Egyptian, Arab and international women have achieved since the beginning of this campaign so far, in addition to reviewing the state`s efforts to curb this phenomenon through its governmental institutions and civil society, and the role of media, drama and soft power in general in combating violence against Egyptian women. .