I believe at the heart of any revolution for socia... -Mona Eltahawy

I believe at the heart of any revolution for social justice and human dignity are consent and agency, the unequivocal belief that I own my body - not the state, not the church/mosque/temple, not the street and not the family.

Mona Eltahawy , Journalist
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We left Egypt when I was seven, and we didn't return until I was 21. My teen years were divided between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. Up until ...
I visited Libya in September 1996 for the 27th anniversary of the 'revolution' - a military coup that a 27-year-old Gadhafi led to topple the monarchy...
While the 2011 revolution did not remove the regime, it has shortened the seemingly endless patience that many Egyptians once had for military rule....
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...
I believe at the heart of any revolution for social justice and human dignity are consent and agency, the unequivocal belief that I own my body - not ...

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There are so many people out there struggling with racism, or their sexuality or where they're brought up or how wealthy their family was ans these is...
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American....
Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you....
One side of my family cooked this way, talked this way, celebrate this way, traditions is this way, and then one of the sides is different, and as a k...
Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family....
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity....
Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family....
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent t...
Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I mis...
I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical....