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My Parents are simple village people. My mom never got to learn how to read and write, even though she was sent to a school, she was not allowed to even look at the teachers. See, there is a law in Egypt that if you don't send your children to school, you have to pay a fine to the government, so my grandfather didn't want to pay a fine, so he sent her to school but told her: "If you ever speak up in a classroom, I'll cut your head off". That is the reality many women face in the Middle East. It's just not easy for women in general, most women, especially on the country side don't have even basic education, they don't even have ID's. So basically you don't count, you don't exist.

And since I was a little girl, all my mom dreamed about was for me to get an education and get out of the village and make a better life for myself.
"But I love the village" I would tell my mom and she'd answer me: "Then do something to change the ways of living here, but if you can't, then leave!"
So, all throughout the high school years I couldn't decide what I wanted to do, or what I could do to change the way things were around me for myself and people around me, because women there don't even know that they have a choice. I thought about choosing law school but how much can one person do after all. Then I thought if these women had a chance to work, to make their own living and not depend on anybody, then they would realize that they actually do have a choice.