For years, despite my inner doubts, I represented to others my choice to veil as a feminist one. Mona Eltahawy Read Quote
As a woman in Saudi Arabia, you have one of two options. You either lose your mind – which at first happened to me because I fell into a deep depression – or you become a feminist. Mona Eltahawy Read Quote
Saudi Arabia isn’t just a conservative country with different values we shouldn’t judge. It is a modern Gilead. Mona Eltahawy Read Quote
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 Anwar Sadat. The legacies most associated with him are a network of bridges and highways and ‘stability.’ Mona Eltahawy Read Quote
What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of respect that acts as a nettle sting on the thin skin of the humourless? Mona Eltahawy Read Quote
I’m no fan of Sarkozy, but I support a ban on face veils because they erase women from society and are promoted by an ultra-conservative ideology that equates piety with the disappearance of women. Mona Eltahawy Read Quote
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 religion, nothing to do with 9/11. We brought out the worst in each other. But before we separated, we visited N.Y.C. one more time together for a friend’s engagement, and we went to pay our respects at the site of the attacks. Mona Eltahawy Read Quote
