Pink Taxi service: Helping or hurting Egyptian culture

Sexual Assault in Egypt has become an incomprehensible problem, but it has spurred the creation of companies like Pink Taxi, a taxi service run by women for women. I reviewed both articles from the Guardian and from Egyptian Streets in order to gauge the local and international perspectives of this feminist company.

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In the article by Nour Youssef from the Guardian, there were a lot of first person accounts and quotes of the situation in Egypt. While it goes in depth on the harassment statistics, but a majority of the information came from quotes from women who have experienced the fear and stigma. What the article really focuses on is the worsening divide between men and women in the country, saying that companies like this add to it instead of repair it. The article also included how expensive the program was.


Similar to Youssef's article, the piece by Egyptian Streets also focuses on the prevalence of sexual harassment in Egypt and the need to fix the problem, but the writer makes this point through legal penalties instead of a lot of quotes. The article stresses the need to change the laws and culture instead of putting a "band-aid" on the situation. 

Pink Taxi
Both focus on similar aspects of the company, but the Egyptian Street piece is less organized and a bit more in tuned with what is happening locally. The Guardian article is more structured and incorporates more human background to the issue. 

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