{"id":105,"date":"2015-07-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/the-cairo-streets-where-girls-pretend-to-be-boys\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T06:48:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:48:40","slug":"the-cairo-streets-where-girls-pretend-to-be-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/the-cairo-streets-where-girls-pretend-to-be-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cairo streets where girls pretend to be boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manal and Ahmed don\u2019t look alike. Manal holds her infant son, who plays with the folds of her hijab. Ahmed looms from a photograph behind her, a baseball cap on his head. Manal is a shy young mum, Ahmed an aggressive young man. They seem like different people.<\/p>\n<p>Except, they\u2019re the same person. \u201cThat,\u201d says Manal, pointing at the picture of Ahmed, \u201cis me. And my boys\u2019 clothes are downstairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We are in a shelter for homeless women in Fustat, southern Cairo, the oldest district in the Egyptian capital. Not far away stands Cairo\u2019s oldest mosque. A few of the women here, on the other hand, are examples of a much more contemporary phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jul\/12\/cairo-streets-where-girls-pretend-to-be-boys?CMP=share_btn_tw\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manal and Ahmed don\u2019t look alike. Manal holds her infant son, who plays with the folds of her hijab. Ahmed looms from a photograph behind her, a baseball cap on his head. Manal is a shy young mum, Ahmed an aggressive young man. They seem like different people. Except, they\u2019re the same person. \u201cThat,\u201d says [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-egypt","region-north-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-396","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-gender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}