Mona Eltahawy
Mona Eltahawy ( Arabic منى الطحاوي, DMG Munā aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī ; born August 1, 1967 in Port Said , Egypt ) is an Egyptian-American journalist. She describes herself as a secular radical feminist Muslim . At the center of Eltahawy's journalistic work is the criticism of misogyny in the Arab world.
Life
Mona Eltahawy moved with her parents, both of whom work as doctors, from Egypt to Great Britain in 1974 and to Saudi Arabia in 1983 . Eltahawy studied journalism at the American University in Cairo and passed the bachelor's examination in 1990 and the master's examination in 1992. Since then she has worked as a journalist and was a correspondent for Reuters in Cairo and Jerusalem for six years . Eltahawy took off the hijab in 1993 , which she had been wearing since 1983.
Eltahawy has lived in the USA since 2000. She wrote a weekly column in Asharq al-Awsat from 2004 to 2006 , but this was removed because of her critical stance on the then Mubarak regime .
Eltahawy works as a reporter in the Middle East. In 2005 she interviewed the then leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Mahdi Akef, in Cairo. Her articles appear in the Washington Post , The New York Times , International Herald Tribune , The Guardian, and the Christian Science Monitor . During the 2011 revolution in Egypt , she was a sought-after interviewee in the western media and was an important commentator on the feminist website Jezebel . In November 2011 she was arrested and mistreated by the Egyptian police on Tahrir Square , her tweet Beaten arrested in interior ministry ensured her liberation after twelve hours. She was arrested in New York City in 2012 when she sprayed an American Freedom Defense Initiative poster .
Fonts
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Headscarves and Hymens. Why the middle east needs a sexual revolution . Faber, 2015; Paperback edition 2016, ISBN 978-1780228877 .
- Why do you hate us so ?: For the sexual revolution of women in the Islamic world . Translation Ursula Held. Piper, Munich / Berlin / Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3492056076 .
- Why Do They Hate Us? The real war on women is in the Middle East , in: Foreign Policy , April 23, 2012
- with Basma Hamdy; Don Stone Karl (Ed.) Walls of Freedom Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution . From Here to Fame Publishing, 2012 (2014: ISBN 978-3937946474 )
- Letter from ... Kuala Lumpur: Open the window, fresh air! , in: Internationale Politik , 64, Nr. 4, (2009): pp. 94–95
Web links
- Mona Eltahawy , website
- Solmaz Khorsand: "I fucked my guilt out" In: Republic of March 30, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yasmine El Rashidi: Mona Eltahawy with Yasmine El Rashidi , interview, at bidoun , spring 2013
- ↑ a b c d Karen Attwood: Mona Eltahawy: It's time to stop treating women like a cheap bargaining chip , in: The Independent , March 8, 2015
- ↑ a b Mona Eltahawy: My unveilling ceremony , in: International New York Times , April 11, 2015, p. 8
- ^ Mona Eltahawy , List of Articles in the Guardian since 2011
- ↑ mona eltahawy , at Jezebel
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eltahawy, Mona |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian-American journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Port Said , Egypt |