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Egypt | Aliaa Magda Elmahdy Blog | Aliaa Magda Elmahdy Egypt: Egyptian blogger, Aliaa Magda Elmady who published a series of naked pictures of herself on Twitter in a protest against Islamic extremism, has sparked a heated debate on Twitter. Egyptian university student Aliaa Magda Elmahdy posted a nude picture of herself on her blog, attracting 1.5million hits. Watch Photos Aliaa Magda Elmahdy Blog Nu-de Photos Spark

A Blogspot profile claiming to be Elhady includes three blogs, with one titled “A Rebel’s Diary,” where the nude photos are posted. A Twitter profile claiming to be Elhady described herself as a “Secular Liberal Feminist Vegetarian Individualist Egyptian.”

Now tough discussions errupted on Twitter under the hashtag #NudePhotoRevolutionary with a flood of “pro and con” comments still posted days after egyptian woman’s pictures spread across the web. One supporter named Ahmed Awadallah, praised her in a Tweet, writing, “I’m totally taken back by her bravery.”


“Many movements in Egypt, particularly Islamist movements, are trying to benefit,” said Emad Gad, a parliamentary candidate from the left-leaning Egyptian Social Democratic Party. “They say, ‘We have to protect our society from things like this, and if the liberals win then this woman will become a model for all Egyptian women.’ ”

Elmahdy’s Facebook page had posts for and against her. She had posted a poll asking, “Do you agree with Aliaa Magda Elmahdy?” There were 662 “No” votes and 261 “Yes” votes. More than 2.1 million people have viewed her blog, and it has received more than 10,000 "likes."

She tweeted: "I took my nude photo myself in my parent's home months before I met @Kareemamer [her boyfriend] and I'm atheist since I was 16."

"My view is that the veil is not a personal choice in Egypt, but the results of religious and social pressure," she said in Facebook. "The women with head veil that I know wear it because of their families or because they don't want to be beaten in the streets. I don't see why they always dictate to women, and not to men, what they should wear." Watch Photos Aliaa Magda Elmahdy Blog Nu-de Photos Spark