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“I think we need to change the way we treat women in our culture. It's not optional.”

Source: Interview with TIME for the 2019 TIME 100, published April 2019

Context Named to the TIME 100 while playing for Liverpool, he told the magazine how seeing the treatment of women in Egypt and the Middle East had changed his views.

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Mohamed SalahEgypt · b. 1992
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