This link is a group interview from three professors with one from Egypt, London, and North Carolina. They talk about the issues facing women in the Middle East. They describe that the western media have portrayed Middle East women as passive and oppressed, but during the revolutions in the Middle East women have been at the center of the movements. They talk about how the western media has relied on non-Middle Eastern journalist to give their perspective about the revolutions.
The professors talk about how the group in Egypt that are writing the new constitution does not include any women, and they say that that could undermined the rights of women or other groups who are not represented. They think that after the revolution in Middle Eastern countries are over that some groups of people will still not have the equal rights they wanted because they are were not represented in the groups who are creating the new governments.
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/rizkhan/2011/03/2011318326616845.html
Ronnie Miller