Mona Eltahawy

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

My birth at the end of July 1967 makes me a child of the naksa, or setback, as the Arab defeat during…

— Mona Eltahawy

Saudi Arabia isn't just a conservative country with different values we shouldn't judge. It is a modern Gilead.

— Mona Eltahawy

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

“Why were women alone responsible for sheltering men from the sexual desires women supposedly elicited in men? Why could men not control…

— Mona Eltahawy

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

For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was…

— Mona Eltahawy

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

When Mubarak does die, he will be remembered as the most bland of those military men turned dictators: compare him with Gamal…

— Mona Eltahawy

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

I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

— Mona Eltahawy

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

I joke that one of the rare times Egyptians identify as African is when the national soccer squad is playing in the…

— Mona Eltahawy

I grew up in the U.K., and my parents are both doctors.

— Mona Eltahawy

My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor…

— Mona Eltahawy

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

It's one thing to be groped and harassed by passers-by, but when the state gropes you, it gives a green light that…

— Mona Eltahawy

It is the harassers and assaulters who make us 'look bad,' not the women who have every right to expose crimes against…

— Mona Eltahawy

In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was…

— Mona Eltahawy

What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of…

— Mona Eltahawy

The military belongs in its barracks, not our ballot boxes.

— Mona Eltahawy

Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls.…

— Mona Eltahawy

The religious fundamentalists of the Republican party are a mirror image of the religious fundamentalists of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

— Mona Eltahawy

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

To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist texts on the bookshelves at the university library…

— Mona Eltahawy