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Who got blamed for the Ever Green wreck? A woman driver of course.
Who knew the Egyptians would point fingers at the closest woman?
Actually, she wasn't even the closest woman, but she was the nearest female captain, a rare anomaly in the Middle East. ...actually, Captain Marwa Elselehdar wasn't within hundreds of miles of the Suez Canal at the time, but face must be saved, and she chose to leave the Genie Bottle.
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Egypt's First Woman Ship Captain Marwa Elselehdar Blamed For Suez Canal Blockage Despite Not Being On Boat
Elizabeth Blackstock
For Jalopnik
The saga of the Ever Given was a beautiful one while it lasted—is there anything funnier than a large boat getting stuck in the narrow Suez Canal?—but it’s had lasting supply chain effects that are pretty miserable. And that’s not even as bad as the flack that one woman—Marwa Elselehdar—is getting for a role she didn’t even play in the event.
Elselehdar, 29, is Egypt’s first-ever female ship captain, and when the Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal, she realized that people were placing her at the center of the fiasco. People were using social media to share a doctored screenshot of an Arab Times headline that claimed she was at the helm of the ship at the time it was stuck. It appeared that the headline had been altered from a March 22 profile of Elselehdar praising her successes. You can see the doctored headline here. https://www.arabnews.com/node/1833276/media
The news came as a shock to Elselehdar, who was working as a first mate on the Aida IV vessel near Alexandria, which is hundreds of miles away.
And that wasn’t all. People began making Twitter accounts with her name claiming responsibility and furthers spreading the false rumors.
“I felt that I might be targeted maybe because I’m a successful female in this field or because I’m Egyptian, but I’m not sure,” she told the BBC this weekend.
Continued here at Jalopnik:
https://jalopnik.com/egypts-first-woman-ship-captain-marwa-elselehdar-blamed-1846615718
Elizabeth Blackstock
For Jalopnik
The saga of the Ever Given was a beautiful one while it lasted—is there anything funnier than a large boat getting stuck in the narrow Suez Canal?—but it’s had lasting supply chain effects that are pretty miserable. And that’s not even as bad as the flack that one woman—Marwa Elselehdar—is getting for a role she didn’t even play in the event.
Elselehdar, 29, is Egypt’s first-ever female ship captain, and when the Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal, she realized that people were placing her at the center of the fiasco. People were using social media to share a doctored screenshot of an Arab Times headline that claimed she was at the helm of the ship at the time it was stuck. It appeared that the headline had been altered from a March 22 profile of Elselehdar praising her successes. You can see the doctored headline here. https://www.arabnews.com/node/1833276/media
The news came as a shock to Elselehdar, who was working as a first mate on the Aida IV vessel near Alexandria, which is hundreds of miles away.
And that wasn’t all. People began making Twitter accounts with her name claiming responsibility and furthers spreading the false rumors.
“I felt that I might be targeted maybe because I’m a successful female in this field or because I’m Egyptian, but I’m not sure,” she told the BBC this weekend.
Continued here at Jalopnik:
https://jalopnik.com/egypts-first-woman-ship-captain-marwa-elselehdar-blamed-1846615718
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