Egypt's favourite single mom

I'm 6 months late -- that's how phased out from the Egyptian society i've become.. shame on me -- but I came accross this brilliant piece of news that I wanted to share:

a 27 years old young lady, by the name of Hind Al Hinnawy has won a lawsuit that apparently has been dragging in courts for the last 2 years. She was suing Ahmed El Fishawy, who is a young hip actor - kinda handsome, awful actor, but both his parents are actors and if it weren't for his parents' contacts he would have never made it in the cinema business - for the paternity of her daughter. They were married 'orfi' (secret marriage which, in my opinion, is just a way to give yourself a clear conscience to commit adultery. Lot of debate on whether it is legal or not, not my point of discussion here).

What pisses the heck out of me is that this jerk has been passing himself for some kind of religious role model, preaching for a renouveau of the faith within young people.. I had actually started to like him. People like him give guys like me a bad name.

Asshole.

It is also a great thing because it'll shake the egyptian legal system. Apparently, until this landmark case, if the father refused to recognise the child, it would not receive a birth certificate, a passport, nothing. And the court apparently cannot order the alleged father to take a blood test. But now, she has set a legal precendent - and hopefully, the court will be able, from now on, to order DNA tests to prove paternity. I didnt know we didnt have that, but it's great to know that we do!!

So, well, on May 25th, the court rules in favour of Ms. Hinnawy and declared that El-Fishawy was the father.

Quick comments:
1) This girl rocks. She's got more courage than two thirds of the society - and she has done us all a big favour. She has forced us to look to ourselves in shame, for all the women who went through similar cases but were never able to prove the partenity of their children, and had to live - and sometimes die - with the legal, economic, and mostly social burden of having a fatherless child.

2) She has made society look up to her in deep respect. And for a single mom in Egypt, that's no small thing. A single mother is now a female role model -- really, chapeau.

3) If it wasn't for who she was - she's a well educated, well endowed designer, for the support of her family (her father is an economist, her mother is a professor, and they live in Moqattam Hills which is a nice residential suburb of Cairo (which also proves a secondary point here: economists are the best:)), and for the guy she was suing, who was a public figure and consequently the story attracted a lot of media coverage. Hey, it had sex, famous people, and religion - the winner media mix in my part of the world..

No longer will such pricks as Fishawi be able to run away from the progeniture. The pig should be in jail for that (doesn't "non-assistance a personne en danger" apply for a weak child??)

Hind, thank you for having the courage to stand up for yourself and for others who have been silenced under the boots of ridiculous laws and corrupt public figures who always thought that their money could buy them out.
You rock, girl.

And also: thumbs up for the egyptian legal system - proved once again that if there is one thing that still functions well (albeit veeeeeeeery slowly) in Egypt, it is the judiciary.

Kudos to Hind!