A recent women's rights conference in Cairo attracted a cross section of Egyptians -- Muslims, Christians, leftists and conservatives.
Women in Egypt's New Political Era

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Women listen to speakers. (Y. Weeks/VOA)

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The World Trade Center Flag is presented as friends and relatives of the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site in New York, September 11, 2012.

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A volunteer at the conference hands out campaign literature for presidential hopeful and independent Islamist candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh. (Y. Weeks/VOA)