Tunesia, Egyt and now Yemen: a domino effect in the Middle East?

She should not have been there. Her minders were playing games with her well being.

She's not been willing to give enough details to satisfy folks like Hawkeye, who'd dismiss her experience anyway

I would not go that far,

What this tells me is that Logan is too fragile to have been in that place.

Which is obvious and her bosses should have known that. I don't blame her for being there. I blame the network and their silly PC agenda.

It's a man's job to report such events.

It's like there's two universes here

It's not just foreign reporters, though. Sexual harassment of women in Egypt is widespread and the recent 'revolution' did nothing to diminish it. I don't understand how anyone thought it would.

Before the assault, Ms. Logan said, she did not know about the levels of harassment and abuse that women in Egypt and other countries regularly experienced. “I would have paid more attention to it if I had had any sense of it,” she said. “When women are harassed and subjected to this in society, they’re denied an equal place in that society. Public spaces don’t belong to them. Men control it. It reaffirms the oppressive role of men in the society.”

Hmmm...not so sure. I noticed lots of women in the crowds of protesters....and they did not seem to be amongst fundamental Islamists.

There has been a solid women's rights movement going along quietly in many parts of the Middle East. I would hope that these women feel more empowered after such an (admittedly very limited) victory.

The new Egypt: Leaving women behind

Throughout the uprising, women were at the forefront of the street protests.

However, they have largely kept quiet about their gender rights in a country where they have faced rampant discrimination and received little legal protection against widespread violence and sexual abuse.

They were careful not to display any intention of wanting to advance one group's rights over those of another.

"We did not speak of our gender rights during these protests because it was not the right time. We spoke for the political and social rights of all Egyptians. If we were to campaign for our rights as women in parallel with the revolution's national goal, that would have been called political opportunism," says Hala Kamal, an assistant professor at Cairo University and a member of the Women in Memory Forum.

But only days into the post-Mubarak era, many women's rights activists have begun to feel suspicious that the national umbrella they rallied under, whose slogan was democracy, equality and freedom for all Egyptians, may be leaving them out.

Their disillusionment began when no women were selected by the military council to be among the 10-member constitutional committee responsible for making constitutional revisions.

Another disheartening setback that raises questions about the future of women's rights in Egypt is the return of sexual harassment to the streets.