On March 8, 2011, Egyptian women took to the streets to celebrate International Women’s Day, in response to a call that was sent out on Facebook for a million women’s march. Since January 25, 2011, Egypt had witnessed a momentous transformation in protest culture and power, wherein millions of people took to the streets to demand their political rights. Million-person marches demonstrated people’s power in the face of a ruthless police state, and eventually succeeded in ousting President Husni Mubarak and ending his 30-year dictatorship. The March 8th call brought a few hundred women to the streets, nowhere near a million. This was not unexpected, as it was extremely unrealistic to imagine that the first sparks of a popular revolution would bring about overnight a radical transfor- mation in cultural attitudes towards women’s rights.