Mona Eltahawy at MIT Media Lab's 2018 Disobedience Awards
Born
(1967-08-01) August 1, 1967 (age 56) Port Said, United Arab Republic (present-day Egypt)[1]
Occupation
Journalist
Nationality
Egyptian, American
Education
The American University in Cairo
Website
monaeltahawy.com
Mona Eltahawy (Arabic: منى الطحاوى, IPA:[ˈmonæ(ʔe)t.tˤɑˈħɑːwi]; born August 1, 1967) is a freelance Egyptian-American[2] journalist and social commentator based in New York City. She has written essays and op-eds for publications worldwide on Egypt and the Islamic world, on topics including women's rights, patriarchy, and Muslim political and social affairs. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and the Miami Herald among others. Headscarves and Hymens, Eltahawy's first book, was published in May 2015. Eltahawy has been a guest analyst on U.S. radio and television news shows. She is among people who spearheaded the Mosque Me Too movement by using the hashtag #MosqueMeToo.[3][4][5][6]
Eltahawy has spoken publicly at universities, panel discussions and interfaith gatherings on human rights and reform in the Islamic world, feminism and Egyptian Muslim–Christian relations, among other concerns.
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^"Muslim Women Are Speaking Out About Abuse". Time. Archived from the original on 2018-09-29. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
^Eltahawy, Mona (2018-02-15). "Opinion | #MosqueMeToo: What happened when I was sexually assaulted during the hajj". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on 2019-05-22. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
^"#MosqueMeToo: Women share experiences of sexual harassment inside religious places". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 2018-07-31. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
^Amidi, Faranak (2018-02-09). "Muslim women rally round #MosqueMeToo". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2018-03-10. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
MonaEltahawy (Arabic: منى الطحاوى, IPA: [ˈmonæ (ʔe)t.tˤɑˈħɑːwi]; born August 1, 1967) is a freelance Egyptian-American journalist and social commentator...
black dog wearing the number 10, which was Zamalek football shirt. MonaEltahawy, the Egyptian journalist, found a deep-seated anti-black racism in her...
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on their own terms. The book then delves into the authors' stories. MonaEltahawy, an Egyptian-American journalist and feminist, starts with "I am able...
of the April 6 Youth Movement. She has been credited by journalist MonaEltahawy and others with helping to spark a mass uprising through her video blog...
publishing. The magazine's contributors included writers and journalists MonaEltahawy, Melody Moezzi, Naheed Mustafa, and many more. Ausma Khan was the editor...
have similar views. After the 7 July 2005 London bombings, journalist MonaEltahawy published an op-ed in the Washington Post noting the fact that there...
(February 1, 2011), "Mubarak is Our Berlin Wall": Egyptian Columnist MonaEltahawy on How the Youth Drove the Uprising in Cairo and Implications for Democracy...
2013). "Rick Perry and the Muslim Brotherhood: Compare and Contrast - MonaEltahawy on social conservatism in Egypt and the U.S." The Atlantic. Archived...
in Arab society. This concept is embodied in female figures such as MonaEltahawy, who is an Egyptian columnist and international public speaker. She...
activist, Director of Civil Rights Outreach at American Islamic Congress MonaEltahawy, Port Said-born Egyptian, freelance journalist Serena Shim, Lebanese...
speakers were David Karp, founder of microblogging platform Tumblr, and MonaEltahawy, an Egyptian-American freelance journalist and commentator. Wired 2011...
El-Tabii Mohamed Hassanein Heikal Mohamed Said Mahfouz Momtaz Al Ket MonaEltahawy Mostafa Amin Muhammad Husayn Haykal Muhammad Jalal Kishk Nawara Negm...
Arab News. 21 March 2021. Producer: Neil George; Interviewed guests: MonaEltahawy, Sally Nabil (26 March 2021). "Nawal El Saadawi (pictured), Brigadier...
September 29, 2012. Marquardt-Bigman, Petra (September 27, 2012). "MonaEltahawy Defends Jihad: We are all Proud Savages Now!". The Algemeiner. Seitz-Wald...
by enough people to inspire more women to share their experiences. MonaEltahawy, an Egyptian American journalist, shared her experiences of sexual abuse...
the military to women in Tahrir Square, Egyptian-American journalist MonaEltahawy noted that Elmahdy "is the Molotov cocktail thrown at the Mubaraks in...
activists Maryam Al-Khawaja and Zainab Al-Khawaja, Egyptian journalist MonaEltahawy, and Libyan activist Danya Bashir were called the "Twitterati" (a portmanteau...
com. Retrieved 2016-09-15. "Muslims for Progressive Values To Host MonaEltahawy As Main Speaker For Reception In Washington DC". PRLog. Retrieved 2020-11-19...
magazine ambassadors include Farida Shaheed from Pakistan, Egyptian MonaEltahawy, Palestinian Rula Jebreal, Leyla Hussein of Somali heritage and Algerian...
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