Hijabskirt Project

Three journalists, Sasa Milosevic (Serbia), Tarek Mounir (Egypt) and Asmaa Fathy (Egypt) created the project Hijabskirt Info in order to overcome rooted prejudices about women in the hijab as well as women in skirts. Given the fact that ignorance is the root of all conflicts, wars and social phobia, the authors have designed this website as a unique educational and social platform for reconciliation West and East through the symbolic process of reconciliation hijab and skirts. The idea was born in Alexandria in February 2010, during the conference “Freedom of expressin in Digital Age” organized by  International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and supported by the United Nations’ Alliance of Civilizations. The friendship of three people, born in Alexandria has  forever merged the two religions, nations and civilizations … This project is the result of that unbreakable connection.

The invisible war between hijab and skirt

Hijab and skirt, at first glance two insignificant pieces of cloth wrapped around the female body, dealt a too much headache to modern world. Two cultures, two traditions, two  religions, two fashions, hijab and skirt  split the planet on the East and the West. Stronger than the Berlin’s Wall. They mapped the boundary between prejudices and tolerance,  morality and immorality, war and peace. The invisible war between the hijab and skirt culminated in the 21.  century with a tendency of deterioration already ruined religious, traditional and ethnic relations between East and West. Viewed from the side it could be said that the root of the conflict of two civilizations is not a conflict of two of Gods, Christ and Allah, but already a conflict of women, symbolically expressed through the collision of the hijab and skirt. What is the main problem? It is different and agressive point of views of the  of opposing sides.

How Western media see woman in hijab ?

Hijab is a symbol of oppression, degradation, isolation, radicalism, extremism,terrorism. A woman with hijab is the thing, machine  that works according to orders of her masters – a father, brother, husband. She is a biological incubator for the production of Jihad warriors. She is dangerous  for their Western neighbors, colleagues, acquaintances. Woman in hijab is a fanatic, suicide-bomber and  killer.

 How the Arab traditionalists see a woman in skirt ?

Skirt is a symbol of profligacy, dishonesty, wickedness, intemperance, disloyalty fornication, stubbornness, insolence, impudence. The woman in skirt is outrageus.  She is whore. She is Satan in human form, sent on the Earth to spread temptation amongst the men. She is walking wallet for young Arab men. She is hunter on wealth Arab husbands.Woman in skirt is good for one night, but not for whole life.

How Hijabskirt Info sees the women in hijab and women in skirt?

As the suit does not make a man, so the Hijab or the skirt does not make the woman. They are only external reflection of her ethnic, traditional, religious or fashionable  affiliation. Woman’s true value is in the interior of her being.

” You look at me and call me oppressed,
Simply because of the way I’m dressed,

You know me not for what is inside,
You judge the clothing I wear with pride,

My body is not for your eyes to hold,
You must speak to my mind, not my feminine mould…”

Women in hijab and women in skirt have been changing the world througout the centuries. They are leaders, power figures, humanists, scientists, artists, teachers, doctors, engineers, pilots. They are heroes.

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Can two distant worlds  be closer each other ?

Yes.
It is a sincere belief by authors of the the project. Reconciliation is possible though the application of the  universal CEC Principle:
* Communication
* Education
* Collaboration