Soccer star Mohammad Salah: Middle Eastern men 'need to change the way we treat women'

Mohamed Salah.
(Image credit: Michael Regan / Staff)

Mohammad Salah is one of the most gifted — and most beloved — soccer players in the world. That became all the more evident when Time named the Liverpool and Egyptian national team striker to the magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people on Wednesday. He even graced one of the six different covers of the issue.

Salah used the opportunity to speak about issues that go well beyond the realm of soccer. Salah said men in his home country of Egypt and across Muslim communities need to treat women differently. "I think we need to change the way we treat women in our culture," Salah said. "It's not optional."

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.