Amid pandemic, 'Me Too' comes to Egypt

A viral social media post sparked Egypt's own #MeToo movement.

It began after Sabah Khodir said she saw a woman's social media post accusing a college student, Ahmed Bassam Zaki, of being a sexual predator and of blackmailing women. Feeling frustrated after reading the allegations against Bassam Zaki, a student at the American University of Cairo, Khodir took action. "I took a picture of him, and then I just picked the most luminous colors I could find. I just started circling his face, placing arrows [on it]," Khodir, a writer and activist based in Washington, D.C., said. She also detailed the allegations of abuse by Bassam Zaki that she received from countless women with evidence like text messages and voice recordings.