In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was basically rendered disabled. She was unable to drive, dependent on my dad for everything. The religious zealotry 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 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
