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Emma Sednaoui

Sednaoui

Emma Sednaoui is a French Egyptian-Polish postgraduate student.  After studying political science in France and Middle-Eastern Studies at SOAS, she specialized in the effects of forced marriage on female genital mutilation/cutting in Egypt. 

Areas of focus: Egyptian and French politics and foreign policy, women’s rights and sexuality, the Arab diaspora in France, Women's political action in the Middle East.

Travis Scott concert in Egypt cancelled 'over Afrocentrism'

For weeks, reports said there would be a last-minute cancellation following an apparent ban by Egypt’s Music Syndicate, though the organizers had hoped they could overturn it and keep the concert on track.

27 July, 2023