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In this paper the researcher attempts to introduce the level of physical and verbal violence that aimed, intentionally or unintentionally, at women (gender) and Alsa'ayda (class). The paper argues that Egyptian films produced in the 1950's and through the 1960s and 1970s lured the film-goers and the public at large to a wrong direction when the women issue is involved. At the present time, the expanding accessibility of Egyptian films to an engrossed and addictive audience have allowed it to present a stronger influence and play a crucial role in the reconstruction of gender and class identities in response to a variety of political, social, and religious changes in the country.

The night of 2-3 December 1994 will mark the tenth anniversary of the world's largest industrial disaster. Despite a settlement between the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) and the Indian government in 1989 and a review in 1991, the gas survivors continue to suffer untold misery. Two articles and an interview with Jabbar Khan (convenor of a women's organization representing the interests of the gas survivors) describe and examine the situation of the gas victims and machinations of the political parties. (DÜI-Sen)