Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, a 20-year old university student from Cairo, has sparked outrage in the Middle East with the controversial full-length image, posted on her blog last week.
Egyptian university student Aliaa Magda Elmahdy posted a nude picture of herself on her blog, attracting 1.5million hits
Wearing nothing but a pair of stockings, red ribbon in her hair and a pair of flat red shoes, the black and white shot would not look out of place in a nude photography book.
But this is no ordinary art project. It is the work of a feminist Egyptian activist who is making a bold and potentially dangerous statement.
Brave? Liberals fear she will taint them in the eyes of deeply conservative Egyptians and thousands have flooded the blog with insults
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