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 will never ally with Islamophobes and racists. But in the choice between 'community' and Muslim women, I will always choose my… — 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
This ISIS group, they attack Muslims more than they attack anyone else. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
As Muslim women, we're not waiting for the president of the United States to open doors for us or to fight our… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
My brother, a cardiologist, was among thousands of Muslims visited by the FBI in November 2001 and forced to submit to special… — 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
I abhor the rightwing Muslim ideology behind the veils, but I equally abhor the political rightwing xenophobes of Europe. — 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 the ideologues… — 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 the June… — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies. — 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 culture or… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
