{"id":24334,"date":"2013-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/24334\/egyptian-actor-dresses-as-a-woman-to-experience-street-harassment"},"modified":"2013-05-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T00:00:00","slug":"egyptian-actor-dresses-as-a-woman-to-experience-street-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24334\/egyptian-actor-dresses-as-a-woman-to-experience-street-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Actor Dresses as a Woman to Experience Street Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"As an Egyptian, I can speak from experience when I say that street harassment is a typical and almost expected occurance in Cairo. We’ve all heard shouts of “Ya mozza” or “Momkan at3arif 3layki”; it’s normal, and we learn to deal with it from a young age.
Yet how would a man feel if he had to undergo the same degrading treatment? In a video posted by Alex Club<\/a>, 24-year-old Egyptian actor Waleed Hammad took this theory to the test. Made up to look like a woman–and a rather attractive woman at that–he roamed the streets of Cairo with a subtle camera crew at his back.