Mona Eltahawy

I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the…

— Mona Eltahawy

When the only two sides fighting are conservative - even if one of them is just conservative in appearance - then everyone…

— Mona Eltahawy

I visited Libya in September 1996 for the 27th anniversary of the 'revolution' - a military coup that a 27-year-old Gadhafi led…

— Mona Eltahawy

I started off at a local newspaper called 'The Middle East Times,' which is no longer in existence. I remember one of…

— Mona Eltahawy

As a U.S. citizen, I cherish the First Amendment.

— Mona Eltahawy

I have chosen not to have children.

— Mona Eltahawy

The Bush administration and its 'we'll liberate you by invading your countries' doctrine is thankfully behind us. It is up to us…

— Mona Eltahawy

The Right is incredibly deft at getting earnest about all the wrong things.

— Mona Eltahawy

It was precisely my love of the First Amendment that made me join sidewalk activists in 2010 to support an Islamic community…

— Mona Eltahawy

I was never one for dolls.

— Mona Eltahawy

Mubarak was adept, as were many other U.S.-backed dictators, at playing the sane middle to the 'lunatics with beards' he so often…

— Mona Eltahawy

Across the globe, fundamentalists of all religions are on one side, and their attitudes towards women and towards female sexuality are almost…

— Mona Eltahawy

I will never ally with Islamophobes and racists. But in the choice between 'community' and Muslim women, I will always choose my…

— Mona Eltahawy

The price of toppling Gadhafi will be steep. But Libyans will topple him, and in doing so, they will bring down with…

— Mona Eltahawy

As a woman in Saudi Arabia, you have one of two options. You either lose your mind - which at first happened…

— Mona Eltahawy

The fight against racism must be seen as a revolutionary one.

— Mona Eltahawy

My feminism does not demand that a woman have an equal opportunity to torture, alongside men. Torture is no less wrong because…

— Mona Eltahawy

To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions…

— Mona Eltahawy

I avoid continuously writing or tweeting about ISIS, as it centres them in the narrative and we end up reacting to them…

— Mona Eltahawy

I know Obama knows better than George W. Bush.

— Mona Eltahawy

I do not subscribe to a feminism that demands perfection or super heroic nobility of women. But I do insist that putting…

— Mona Eltahawy

Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world.

— Mona Eltahawy

I do not celebrate the appointment of women to high positions in regimes where cruelty is a favored tool of governance by…

— Mona Eltahawy

Muslim views are not a monolithic blob.

— Mona Eltahawy

The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.

— Mona Eltahawy