Quotes by Mona Eltahawy - Page 3

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 / Journalist
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Optimistic
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Monarchy
Revolution
September
Coup
Hopes
Led
Ruled
Stamp
Topple
Visited
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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 / Journalist
Religion
Culture
Egyptian
Engagement
Husband
Left
Pay
Site
Together
Worst
After
American
Attacks
Year
Brought
Friend
Each
Respects
Separated
Visited
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We have been under military rule since 1952, when a group of army officers overthrew Egypt's monarchy and ended Britain's occupation of the country. But that only replaced an external occupation with an internal one, in which favored sons of the armed forces replaced their uniforms with suits, a move meant to create a semblance of civilian rule.
Mona Eltahawy / Journalist
Armed Forces
Britain
Egypt
Monarchy
Occupation
Officers
Replaced
Semblance
Uniforms
Armed
External
Civilian
Favored
Internal
Sons
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Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.
Mona Eltahawy / Journalist
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Baby
Children
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My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist tests 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. Now that I am older, I can see that feeling terrified is how you recognize what you need. Terror encourages you to jump, even when you don't know if you will ever land.
Mona Eltahawy / Journalist
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Ideas
Land
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