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Christian Fraser - BBC News Cairo - Wed 18 March, 2009
The women's practice can even include contests against male colleagues. Image: BBC
In a dojo, or martial arts training area, in a poor working class suburb of Cairo, women in karate uniforms and tracksuits are learning to fight off an assailant.
In this male-dominated society it is unusual to see these women in their headscarves sparring with men, but such is the concern here at the rise of sexual harassment cases that the number attending this class grows every month.
Shaza Saeed, 14, is one of the new recruits. . .
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