Egyptian blogger Aliaa Elmahdy: Why I posed naked

[rug]

By Mohamed Fadel Fahmy for CNN
November 19, 2011 -- Updated 1858 GMT (0258 HKT

Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy has become a household name in the Middle East and sparked a global uproar after a friend posted a photo of her naked on Twitter.

The photo, which the 20-year-old former student first posted on her blog, shows her naked apart from a pair of thigh-high stockings and some red patent leather shoes.

It was later posted on Twitter with the hashtag #nudephotorevolutionary. The tweet was viewed over a million times, while Elmahdy's followers jumped from a few hundred to more than 14,000.

Her actions have received global media coverage and provoked outrage in Egypt, a conservative Muslim country where most women wear the veil. Many liberals fear that Elmahdy's actions will hurt their prospects in the parliamentary election next week.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/19/world/meast/nude-blogger-aliaa-magda-elmahdy/

No, you can find the photo yourself.

[Quartermass]

1. I think more pretty women should pose naked, but that's just me. I like pretty women naked.

[MarkCharles]

3. I have no objection to naked women, nor men. All of us are naked before our

god...oh wait, I don't believe in a god. So I must be clothed all the time!!!!!

[rug]

4. Thank God.

[onehandle]

2. Brave and beautiful. nt

[rug]

5. There are many of them.

http://cryptome.org/info/women-protest6/women-protest6.htm

[bvar22]

6. She could get in real trouble for this.

Isn't she supposed to wear a veil in public?

[struggle4progress]

7. conservative head-covering seems to be very common but ultra-conservative face-covering uncommon

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