Postpartum Depression and Sex Ed for Arab Women with Nour Emam

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Nour Emam, the founder & CEO of Motherbeing, as well as a sexual health educator and birth worker. Nour and Hannah talk about the lack of sex education in Egypt as well as the harmful attitudes around virginity. Nour shares how experiencing a traumatic birth and postpartum depression led her into working as a doula, and how that led to her work creating for Egyptian and MENA women around sex education. Finally, Nour talks about her course, Bridal Bootcamp, how framing sex education around marriage can make it accessible to more women in the Middle East and North Africa, and gives some really helpful advice for other people in conservative countries wanting to work in disciplines around sex and the importance of going slowly and safely.

CW: We talk about postpartum depression, suicidal ideation, traumatic birth, and rape throughout this episode.

✨MORE ABOUT NOUR IMAM✨
Nour Emam is the founder & CEO of Motherbeing, as well as a sexual health educator and birth worker, who works at the intersection of women’s health, education and technology to provide tangible and transparent reproductive and sexual health solutions, services and products that are widely-accessible, culture-centric, and evidence-based for Arab women living across the MENA region and beyond. Motherbeing has over 2.5 million followers across social media, has been featured in the New York Times and was #1 on Apple Podcasts in the MENA region for its two season show "The Mother Being Podcast".
- Motherbeing: https://thisismotherbeing.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisismotherbeing/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@motherbeing

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0:36.1	Hi everyone.
0:37.2	Welcome back to doing it, the Sex and Relationships podcast where sex has never been so nerdy with me, your host, Hannah Whitten.
0:44.3	This week I'm joined by the incredible Noor Imam.
0:48.1	Nor is the founder and CEO of Mother Being, a platform championing Arab women's sexual health and sexuality, nor is a sexual
0:56.1	health educator and birth worker in Egypt who works at the intersection of women's health, education
1:01.7	and technology to provide tangible and transparent reproductive and sexual health solutions,
1:08.2	services and products that are widely accessible, culture-centric and
1:12.6	evidence-based for Arab women living across the Meena region, Middle East and North Africa,
1:18.6	and beyond. Mother Being leads educational workshops for women around sex and relationships
1:23.6	and has over 2.5 million followers across social media and under mother being
1:29.8	nor also launched the company beam which creates locally made sexual products for women such as
1:36.4	lube i really wanted to get nor on the podcast because she is an absolute leading voice and
1:42.0	change maker around arab women's experiences of
1:44.9	their bodies and sex. And I wanted to talk with her all about sex education for Arab women.
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