Mulala's Message - Can It Bring Hope for Egypt's Unwanted Street Girls?

Mulala Youssefsai’s one-girl crusade to ensure the education of girl’s garners worldwide enthusiasm and support. Her brave stance against the Taliban before, during, and after their near-fatal attack enhances her message. Girls no longer need subject themselves to narrow-minded traditionalists. Girls must take advantage of every opportunity for education. By doing so enhances them to become productive members of society on their own merit.

Yet in the midst of Mulala’s valiant efforts there are girls who will never receive the benefit of her crusade against ignorance. They remain prisoners of ignorance, prejudice, and inescapable humiliation. These are the girls wandering the streets of Egypt’s major cities, Cairo and Alexandria. They number anywhere between 50,000 and 100,000. Abandoned, violated, raped, imprisoned, uneducated, at the mercy of a disinterested government, these girls, when taken by the police, spend their days and nights locked in ‘fix-it’ places. In these places, the world can forget them; the government can ignore them, as they grow up in ignorance virtually buried alive.

While Mulala must be applauded and appreciated as a fearless advocate for girls’ rights everywhere, she can be forgiven for not realizing the depth of depravity to which the Egyptian government goes to silence the voices of those they consider less than human. The girls they suppress have no rights, no voice, no freedom, no identity. In contrast to Mulala who has a loving and supportive family and compassionate global public, these Egyptian street girls have no one to support or care for their welfare.

Il Binait Dol: Egypt’s Hidden Shame is a new book which for the first time gives these girls a voice. You can read their personal stories, discover their troubled existence, and read about possible solutions to bringing about real change for this army of street girls that deserves the same opportunities in life that Mulala claims are the right and privilege for each and every girl in the world. 

[The book is available on Kindle ebooks and will soon be available in paperback on Amazon books].