58 Mona Eltahawy Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mona Eltahawy

Egyptian Journalist

Born: Aug 1, 1967

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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 and since which he has ruled. Some were optimistic that Gadhafi's 'revolution' could herald a new Libya, but it didn't take long for his brutality to stamp out any such hopes. Mona Eltahawy

Long Revolution September Military Ruled Topple Visited Libya Out Hopes Some Brutality Could Take He Anniversary Since New Coup Were His Led Optimistic Any Which Stamp Monarchy

All religions, if you shrink them down, are all about controlling women's sexuality. Mona Eltahawy

You Women Controlling Down All Religions Religions Sexuality About Them Shrink

Authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism and militarism are inherently patriarchal and hierarchical. Mona Eltahawy

Hierarchical Religious Authoritarianism Patriarchal Inherently Militarism Fundamentalism

Morality crusades unite military regimes and religious zealots alike. Mona Eltahawy

Military Alike Religious Morality Crusades Regimes Unite

The first time I wore a head scarf, I was 16. I looked and felt like a nun. I missed the wind in my hair. For me, it was not a comfortable thing to wear. Mona Eltahawy

Time Me Wind Hair First Nun Wear Scarf Head Missed Like Looked Comfortable Felt First Time Wore Thing

To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist texts on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Mona Eltahawy

My family moved to Saudi Arabia from Glasgow when I was 15. Being a 15-year-old girl anywhere is difficult - all those hormones and everything - but being a 15-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia... it was like someone had turned the light off in my head. I could not get a grasp on why women were treated like this. Mona Eltahawy

Family Women Light Girl Difficult Everything Those Arabia Hormones Someone Could Had Head Glasgow Like Were Off Get Moved Being Anywhere Turned Grasp Why Saudi Saudi Arabia Treated

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

I like to call the Republicans the Christian Brotherhood of the U.S. so that my fellow Americans recognise the line that connects their mix of religion and politics with their Muslim equivalent in Egypt. Mona Eltahawy

Politics Religion Christian Recognise Muslim Brotherhood Like Fellow Fellow Americans Call Equivalent Line Mix American Egypt Republicans Connects

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

Family Justice Heart Dignity Revolution Own Believe State Unequivocal Any Human Human Dignity Social Agency Body Social Justice Belief Street Consent

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

Satire Respect Marriage Skin Laugh Laugh Track Civil Civil Disobedience Potent Track Sting Lack Disobedience Derision Brew Acts Thin

It was precisely my love of the First Amendment that made me join sidewalk activists in 2010 to support an Islamic community center's right to open in Lower Manhattan. Mona Eltahawy

Love Me Made First Community Sidewalk Join Open Support First Amendment Islamic Amendment Precisely Manhattan Center Lower Activists Right

The Right is incredibly deft at getting earnest about all the wrong things. Mona Eltahawy

Incredibly Earnest About Wrong Wrong Things Getting Right Things

As a U.S. citizen, I cherish the First Amendment. Mona Eltahawy

Citizen First First Amendment Cherish Amendment

As an Egyptian-American, I want both sides of that hyphen to enjoy the forms of freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, as I want both sides of that hyphen to move beyond the deceptive simplicity of the question, 'Why do they hate us?' Mona Eltahawy

Freedom Hate Simplicity First Enjoy Sides Both Both Sides First Amendment Beyond Question Amendment Move Want Deceptive Forms Us Why Guaranteed

Anti-U.S. sentiment has been born out of many grievances - support and weapons for such dictators as Mubarak, unquestionable support for Israel in its occupation of Palestine, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen that kill more civilians than intended targets. Mona Eltahawy

Sentiment Out Has-Been Weapons Born Civilians More Attacks Support Occupation Israel Been Iraq Yemen Targets Dictators Than Intended Afghanistan Mubarak Wars Many Pakistan Palestine

For most of my life, the U.S. was never anything more than vacation memories. Mona Eltahawy

Life Memories My Life More Never Most Than Anything Vacation

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

Time Religion Together Culture Husband Year Before Nothing Pay Other Our Respects Worst Visited Out Brought More Attacks He Because Friend Left American Site Egyptian After Separated Engagement Each

My brother, a cardiologist, was among thousands of Muslims visited by the FBI in November 2001 and forced to submit to special registration fingerprinting, his photo and information forever in Homeland Security's files. Mona Eltahawy

November Submit Visited Photo Muslims Security Thousands Brother Forced His Forever Information Registration Special Files Homeland Among

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