4 Quotes & Sayings By Mona Eltahawy

Mona Eltahawy is a journalist and activist. She is the author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution. She writes for the Guardian, Harper's, NOW Lebanon, Salon.com, and Al Jazeera. Eltahawy has also traveled to Libya with women's rights organization Women Under Siege; she blogged for Feministing; and she was featured in the 2003 documentary film Arab Women, Arab World Read more

She has worked on human rights issues in Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, and Tunisia.

To be “out of touch” with a society in which...
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To be “out of touch” with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing. Mona Eltahawy
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The battles over women's bodies can be won only by a revolution of the mind Mona Eltahawy
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Misogyny has not been completely wiped out anywhere. Rather, it resides on a spectrum, and our best hope for eradicating it globally is for each of us to expose and to fight against local versions of it, in the understanding that by doing so we advance the global struggle. Mona Eltahawy