Egypt's first female captain at centre of hideous Suez allegation

au.news.yahoo.com ^ | 4/4/2021 | Nadine Carrol

[rktman]

Egypt’s first female ship captain has revealed she was blamed by hordes of online trolls for blocking the Suez Canal despite being on a different ship hundreds of kilometres away.

Marwa Elselehdar, 29, was working as a first mate in command of a ship in Alexandria when she started seeing online rumours which claimed she was to blame for the huge container ship that became wedged, blocking one of the world’s major shipping routes on March 23.

Despite already captaining ships, Ms Elselehdar will take her final exam to attain a full Captain rank next month and hopes that she can continue to be a role model for women in her industry.

"My message to females who want to be in the maritime field is fight for what you love and not let any negativity to affect you," she said.

[bigbob]

at least she’s hot

[freedumb2003]

Hey if she can do it and passes the all the exams with no special help, good on her!

Anyone that goes after her especially when she was nowhere near the ship in question is just a stupid jerk.

[freedumb2003]

For real?

If that is her - NOT GULTY!

[rktman]

Uh, NOT Egyptian Navy. Maritime skipper.

[rktman]

LOL! I saw it but, gasp! was not offended. 😂🙌

[Maceman]

A ship captain will now have to start calling their ship “they.”

[Political Junkie Too]

In before the "Captain's Mast" jokes.

-PJ

[stevem]

What's the old adage/statement of tolerance?

"That's why we keep you around. We need scapegoats."

[oldvirginian]

Seeing as Egypt is a muslim dominated country we can be sure she has succeeded on hard work and merit. Poor lady has probably had to be at least twice as good and twice as smart as her male contemporaries. You just know there has been at least one superior at every step that did all he could to insure she failed.

[bunkerhill7]

A Woman.
A Plan.
Suez.

[Bulwyf]

She definitely didn’t do it. I perhaps should go administer advanced interrogation tactics to be sure though.

[Spok]

So there’s no truth to the rumor that she was trying to parallel park? 😬

[bunkerhill7]

I like to climb Egyptian pyramids.

[rktman]

zee?

[Spktyr]

Ummm... did you not read the article? She was not on the ship that went aground.

[lee martell]

“Captain Marwa, don’t you think you’d be happier staying at home, keeping busy making Beef Shish-Kebabs and Eggplant Mousakkaa for some lucky young man? Maybe followed by a little dusting after the meals. That’s all my Mother ever did, and she used to tell me she felt like the happiest girl in Cairo! Did you know that never left the house for 47 years?”

[ASA Vet]

[Maceman]

Perhaps.

[1Old Pro]

Ridiculous, the media reported the culprit, Trump.

[setter]

Please no. Hope she was spared.

As of 2018, UNICEF’s latest data, from 2015, reports 14% of Egyptian girls aged 0 to 14 had been subjected to FGM, while 87% of females aged 15 to 49 had so.