Authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism and militarism are inherently patriarchal and hierarchical. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
All religions, if you shrink them down, are all about controlling women's sexuality. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Morality crusades unite military regimes and religious zealots alike. — 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
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
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
I like to call the Republicans the Christian Brotherhood of the U.S. so that my fellow Americans recognise the line that connects… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Across the globe, fundamentalists of all religions are on one side, and their attitudes towards women and towards female sexuality are almost… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I can write about my culture and religion because I am a product of both. Even when I'm accused of giving ammunition… — 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
I left my husband a year after 9/11. Not because he was an American and I an Egyptian, nothing to do with… — 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
