To say that there is patriarchy in Arab culture is not denying women agency. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
For years, despite my inner doubts, I represented to others my choice to veil as a feminist one. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
We are fighting misogynists in every culture. My solution is to listen to the women in each community and amplify their voices. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I was 15 when my family moved to Jidda from Britain in 1982. Living in Saudi Arabia was such a shock to… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Saudi authorities must launch a campaign about the safety of female pilgrims and the determination of the authorities to ensure every woman's… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I defend a woman's right to cover her hair if she chooses, but the face is central to human interaction, and so… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
It is the harassers and assaulters who make us 'look bad,' not the women who have every right to expose crimes against… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
When the only two sides fighting are conservative - even if one of them is just conservative in appearance - then everyone… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
My feminism does not demand that a woman have an equal opportunity to torture, alongside men. Torture is no less wrong because… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist texts on the bookshelves at the university library… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I do not celebrate the appointment of women to high positions in regimes where cruelty is a favored tool of governance by… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I do not subscribe to a feminism that demands perfection or super heroic nobility of women. But I do insist that putting… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
We must make sure #MeToo breaks the race, class, gender, and faith lines that make it so hard for marginalized people to… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
As a woman in Saudi Arabia, you have one of two options. You either lose your mind - which at first happened… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I defend a woman's right to cover her hair if she chooses, but the face is central to human interaction, and so the ideologues… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share
My birth at the end of July 1967 makes me a child of the naksa, or setback, as the Arab defeat during the June… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share
Saudi Arabia isn't just a conservative country with different values we shouldn't judge. It is a modern Gilead. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share
I can write about my culture and religion because I am a product of both. Even when I'm accused of giving ammunition to the… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share
“Why were women alone responsible for sheltering men from the sexual desires women supposedly elicited in men? Why could men not control themselves? Why,… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share
Saudi authorities must launch a campaign about the safety of female pilgrims and the determination of the authorities to ensure every woman's safety. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share
For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share
Bashar al-Assad's henchmen stomped on the hands of famed Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat. Our dictators tailor wounds to suit their victims' occupations. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share
When Mubarak does die, he will be remembered as the most bland of those military men turned dictators: compare him with Gamal Abdel-Nasser and… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share
As a Muslim woman, I'm all too familiar with the media shorthand for 'Muslim' and 'woman' equaling Covered in Black Muslim Woman. She's seen,… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share
I left my husband a year after 9/11. Not because he was an American and I an Egyptian, nothing to do with culture or… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share
I joke that one of the rare times Egyptians identify as African is when the national soccer squad is playing in the African Cup… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share
My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share
