Women MPs set ambitious agendas
CAIRO - The new session of the People's Assembly (the Lower House of the Egyptian Parliament), which opened last week, includes a quota of 64 seats for women.
One of these women MPs, Ekbal el-Samalouti, represents a constituency in Giza, south of Cairo. Originally from Samalout in the Upper Egyptian Governorate of el-Minya, about 250km south of Cairo, Ekbal is also the chairwoman of the board of directors of an NGO, as well as Dean of the Higher Institute for Social Work in Cairo.