![]() ![]() “We’re just asking for our rights,” she said. A larger group of counterdemonstrators was also there ![]() Women protest in Sidon for the right to wear what they want at public beaches on May 21, 2023. The incident sparked a protest this Sunday with about 70 feminists, activists and journalists gathering in Sidon from across the country to support Yaafouri. They began kicking a football around the couple, surrounding them and flicking sand in their direction.Ī man intervened to tell the clergymen that it is “not in our religion to attack a woman”, Yaafouri said.īut it soon became clear their group was not going to retreat, and the man who intervened advised the couple to leave the beach for their safety. The two men left, only to return about 10 minutes later with at least a dozen others. ![]() “They said it’s their law – the power of the sheikh,” Yaafouri told Al Jazeera. Yaafouri stood her ground and told the men she can wear whatever she wants at a public beach. On May 14, two men who called themselves Muslim sheikhs approached Yaafouri and her husband, demanding that the pair leave because Yaafouri was wearing a one-piece swimsuit. But her regular jaunt at Saida Public Beach in Lebanon’s coastal city of Sidon was interrupted. It was supposed to be a leisurely Sunday in May like many others for Mayssa Hanouni Yaafouri. ![]()
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