On Thursday, I was on CNN to analyse Pres. Obama’s Middle East speech.   And on PBS Newshour along with Rami Khoury and Martin Indyk

Arabian Business magazine recently compiled a list of 100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2011, which placed me at 51 and a list of 500 Most Powerful Arabs in the World, which placed me at 124. It was interesting to compare the Arabic-language bio they’ve posted for me with their English-language one – quite different!

I spoke on a panel on media and popular culture along with Spike Lee, Donna Byrd and Will Griffin at the Aspen Institute’s Symposium on the State of Race in America (our panel starts at 1:21:00). It was a pleasure to introduce Ronit Avni of JustVision and to present her and the team behind “Budrus” [...]

I spoke on a plenary at J-Street’s Second Annual Conference on the implications of revolutions and uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. I stressed that the rally for freedom and dignity sweeping the region would not stop at the borders of Palestine and I challenged J-Street and Israel to join a revolution for [...]

I was on a PBS Frontline programme on Egypt’s Revolution and the role of the Muslim Brotherhood. Here’s the transcript of the full interview I gave Frontline in which I explain that the revolution gave the middle finger to many things. I was featured in this Newsweek piece on talking heads on Egypt.

CBS Sunday Morning broadcast my video essay on how Egypt’s revolution toppled both a dictator and stereotypes of Arabs I was part of a roundtable on Egypt along with Arianna Huffington, George Will and Robert Kagan on This Week with Christiane Amanpour. When was the last time you saw more women than men on a [...]

I was on CNN American Morning to discuss what the US could do in reaction to Egypt’s uprising. I explained Mubarak’s “parallel universe” also on CNN American Morning. On NPR’s Tell Me More, I highlighted the role of women in Egypt’s revolution On the Dylan Ratigan Show/MSNBC, we discussed the Day of Departure and would [...]

I was on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman to talk about Egypt’s revolution, the youth, and Israel support for Mubarak. I was on PBS Newshour along with Michele Dunne and Tarek Masoud to discuss the opposition and who could emerge to negotiate over Egypt’s political future. I was on CBC Connect to react to Mubarak’s [...]

It was a thrill to be featured on Jezebel which described me as “The Woman Who’s Explaining Egypt to the West”. Trying my best to amplify the voices and courage of Egypt’s uprising.

I wrote this essay for The Observer as an ode to the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings and the tremendous impact they’re having on the Arab region.

I was on PBS Newshour on Monday along with Shibley Telhami to talk about the Tunisian revolution. On Tuesday, I discussed Tunisia To the Point with Warren Olney, which is broadcast on NPR stations, along with David Kirkpatrick, Rami Khouri and Juan Cole. [tweetmeme only_single="false"]

By Mona Eltahawy Toronto Star, Jan. 8, 2011 NEW YORK CITY – While you were enjoying the various holidays on offer, Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali went on live television to address a nation gripped by the worst unrest in a decade. Unsurprisingly, he was agitated. When you’ve been in power for 23 [...]

By Mona Eltahawy Dec. 10, 2010 I’m a Muslim. I’m a feminist. And I’m here to confuse you,” I told attendees at the TEDWomen conference, where I was a speaker, in Washington this week. The conversation on Muslim women usually revolves around our head scarves and our hymens — what’s on our heads (or not), [...]

By Mona Eltahawy The Jerusalem Report I was 23 years old and I was interviewing an Egyptian feminist who had just taken over as editor-in-chief of a women’s magazine of the cooking-and-fashion variety, which she had vowed to turn into the go-to magazine for women’s rights. I was excited to meet her because she was [...]

The Jerusalem Report September 13, 2010 When the planes flew into the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, I was living in Seattle, on the other side of America. My brother and his wife were visiting me. We did not leave the house for two days because we were worried that [...]

By Mona Eltahawy Jerusalem Report, May 24, 2010 Oslo – Listening to men and women women testify at the Oslo Freedom Forum in April, I thought how apropos it was that the night before I flew to Oslo I had attended a performance in London of “Macbeth,” Shakespeare’s depiction of a “bloody-sceptered” tyrant, which could’ve [...]

By Mona Eltahawy The Jerusalem Report April 26, 2010 “You’re beginning to look like them,” an Egyptian policeman told me one day at Cairo airport during the year I lived in Israel. As had become routine upon my arrival to or departure from Cairo, I had to clear security. As I waited, chats with police [...]

In light of the graphic video released by Wikileaks.org which shows a U.S. helicopter shooting and killing a Reuters photographer and driver during a July 2007 attack in Baghdad, I’m republishing an oped I wrote in 2003 about friend and Reuters colleague Mazen Dana, a Palestinian camerman shot dead in Baghdad by a U.S. soldier [...]

The Jerusalem Report March 29, 2010 When I read that Egypt’s Journalist Union had punished two senior Egyptian editors – one a member of the country’s ruling party and the other an expert on Jewish affairs for violating its ban on contacts with Israel, I wondered if Omar Sharif ever thinks of me. My nemesis [...]

I am happy and honoured to be getting the Estlow Centre for Journalism and New Media’s 2010 Anvil of Freedom Award. I am especially thrilled because past recepients have included Arab-American journalist Helen Thomas.