This ISIS group, they attack Muslims more than they attack anyone else. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
For years, successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
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 Image
Too often, when Muslim women speak out, some in our 'community' accuse us of 'making our men look bad' and of giving… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia isn't just a conservative country with different values we shouldn't judge. It is a modern Gilead. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
The religious fundamentalists of the Republican party are a mirror image of the religious fundamentalists of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
When we complain to Egypt's Western allies about whichever autocrat is in power, we are asked, 'But who is the alternative?' It… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I am appalled to hear the defence of the niqab or burka in Europe. A bizarre political correctness has tied the tongues… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
My birth at the end of July 1967 makes me a child of the naksa, or setback, as the Arab defeat during… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
When Tunisians overthrew Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 29 days and Egyptians Hosni Mubarak in 18 days, it was an appropriate… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Anti-U.S. sentiment has been born out of many grievances - support and weapons for such dictators as Mubarak, unquestionable support for Israel… — 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
Good riddance, Bin Laden - an unwelcome squatter in the house of my religion who tore down all the walls and was… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
That morning of 11 September 2001, as we watched the twin towers crumble on live television, America and I would develop a… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
We have been under military rule since 1952, when a group of army officers overthrew Egypt's monarchy and ended Britain's occupation of… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls.… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
As a Muslim woman, I'm all too familiar with the media shorthand for 'Muslim' and 'woman' equaling Covered in Black Muslim Woman.… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
When Mubarak does die, he will be remembered as the most bland of those military men turned dictators: compare him with Gamal… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I'm no fan of Sarkozy, but I support a ban on face veils because they erase women from society and are promoted… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Some forms of veil are justified by the idea that you're not tempting men. Well how about men just behaving and keeping… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I wore the hijab - a form of dress that comprises a head scarf and usually also clothing that covers the whole… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
The Tunisian revolution left every Arab dictator in fear; Egypt's toppling of Mubarak left them terrified - even one of the U.S.'… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
The price of toppling Gadhafi will be steep. But Libyans will topple him, and in doing so, they will bring down with… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, like his most recent predecessors Mohamed Morsi and Hosni Mubarak, rarely mention the Sinai Peninsula other than to… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was… — 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
