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Mona Eltahawy was born on 1 August, 1967 in Port Said, United Arab Republic (present-day Egypt), is an Egyptian-American journalist (born 1967). Discover Mona Eltahawy's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?

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Occupation Journalist
Age 56 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 1 August 1967
Birthday 1 August
Birthplace Port Said, United Arab Republic (present-day Egypt)
Nationality American

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1967

Mona Eltahawy (منى الطحاوى, ; born August 1, 1967) is a freelance Egyptian-American 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.

1990

She graduated from the American University in Cairo in 1990 with a bachelor's degree and in 1992 she earned a master's degree in Mass Communication with a concentration in Journalism.

Eltahawy was a news reporter throughout the 1990s, and a correspondent for the Reuters News Agency in Cairo and Jerusalem.

She has written news and opinion articles for The Guardian, the International Herald-Tribune, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, and The New York Times.

2000

She moved to the United States in 2000 and gained American citizenship in 2011.

2003

From 2003 to 2004, Eltahawy was managing editor of the now defunct Arabic-language version of Women's eNews, an independent, non-profit news website that covers women's issues from around the world.

2004

She wrote a weekly column for the Saudi-owned, London-based international Arab publication Asharq Al-Awsat from 2004 to 2006 before her articles were discontinued by editor Tariq Alhomayed for being "too critical" of the Egyptian regime.

Eltahawy was a board member of the Progressive Muslim Union of North America during its existence from 2004 to 2006.

Eltahawy has criticised the regimes of both Hosni Mubarak and the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood, referring to them as "old, out-of-touch men".

2009

In 2009, The Economist said Eltahawy used the phrase "the opium of the Arabs" referring to Israel, describing, as the magazine elaborated, "an intoxicating way for them to forget their own failings or at least blame them on someone else. Arab leaders have long practice of using Israel as a pretext for maintaining states of emergency at home and putting off reform."

Eltahawy speaks out on women's rights in the Arab world, attacking female genital mutilation.

2011

On November 24, 2011, she was one of numerous journalists arrested by the Egyptian authorities while covering renewed protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

She was held in custody for 12 hours, during which time she was interrogated, and both physically and sexually assaulted.

Her left arm and right hand were fractured.

In an interview in February 2011, she said the Muslim Brotherhood could not "gain the support of the majority of Egyptians".

In November 2011, Eltahawy faced repercussions by Egyptian security forces as a result of her criticism.

Covering the protests at Tahrir Square, she was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted by Egyptian riot police, breaking both of her arms.

She described herself as "a secular, radical feminist Muslim" in a 2011 interview.

Eltahawy is a supporter of LGBTQ rights all over the world and an African (Egyptian) Arab supporter as well as an anarchist feminist.

2012

On September 25, 2012, Eltahawy was arrested for spraypainting over an American Freedom Defense Initiative advertisement in a New York City Subway station that read: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad".

Toward the end of the incident two police officers approached the area and arrested her.

In an interview on CNN, she confirmed she was arraigned and charged with Criminal Mischief, Making Graffiti, and Possession of a Graffiti Instrument.

She defended herself by saying what she had done was freedom of expression and that her actions were civil disobedience.

The book is based on a piece about misogyny in Arab society entitled "Why Do They Hate Us?", which she wrote for Foreign Policy in 2012.

In a May 2012 article in Foreign Policy, she wrote, "Name me an Arab country, and I'll recite a litany of abuses [of women] fueled by a toxic mix of culture and religion that few seem willing or able to disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend."

In a 2012 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) interview with Piya Chattapadhyay, Eltahawy "says being civil, respectful and polite are ineffective, and instead women must harness the seven qualities — or "necessary sins" — of anger, attention, ambition, power, profanity, violence and lust."

Later she asked people to "imagine a scenario in which we kill a certain number of men every week. How many men must we kill until patriarchy sits across the table from us and says, "OK, stop.

What must we do, so that you can stop this culling?" Now I'm saying imagine. I'm not saying go out there and kill 100 men today. I'm saying, just imagine this very, very disturbing scenario."

2015

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.

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.

Eltahawy was born in Port Said, Egypt.

Her family moved to the UK when she was 7 and then to Saudi Arabia when she was 15.

Eltahawy's first book, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, was published in the United States on April 21, 2015, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

2019

In September 2019, Eltahawy released her second book, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls.

2020

In September 2020 she started a newsletter on Substack, Feminist Giant.

In 2020, Eltahawy began publishing personal essays and political commentary via her newsletter, Feminist Giant.