Born Quote by 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 the ideologues…

— Mona Eltahawy

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

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 to the…

— Mona Eltahawy

“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

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

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

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 Abdel-Nasser and…

— 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. She's seen,…

— 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 culture or…

— Mona Eltahawy