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

I was on “In the Arena” with Elliot Spitzer to talk about why Pres. Obama didn’t release pictures of a dead Osama Bin Laden. On CBC Connect I discussed reasons behind the frat-boy scenes of celebrations we’ve seen at Ground Zero.

By Mona Eltahawy The Guardian May 3, 2011 I could hear the cheers as I got out of the taxi, two blocks away. I could hear them from right in front of Park 51, the site of a planned Islamic community centre and mosque that met ferocious opposition last year for being too close to [...]

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 was on CNN American Morning on Wednesday and Democracy Now! on Thursday morning to discuss the gang-rape of Eman Al Obeidi by Gaddafi troops. Other uses of sexual violence to silence and intimidate women came up, such as the Egyptian army’s forced virginity testing of female activists detained from Tahrir Square in March. Also [...]

I was part of ABC’s This Week’s Roundtable discussing Libya, international intervention and what next. Jake Tapper subbed for Christiane Amanpour and the other panelists were George Will, Joe Sestak and Jeffrey Goldberg. Here’s Part One and Part Two.

By Mona Eltahawy Toronto Star NEW YORK—As if further proof were needed of the intellectual as well as physical cave Al Qaeda inhabits, their new online magazine “Al Shamikha” (Majestic Woman) is the latest reminder. As women and men, passionate for freedom and dignity, fuel uprisings and revolutions that are sweeping across the Middle East [...]

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 [...]

By Mona Eltahawy Huffington Post, Feb. 23, 2011 NEW YORK – If Tunisia kicked down the door of the Arab imagination by showing it was possible to topple a dictator, Egypt drew a blueprint of non-violence for the house of revolution that detailed how to demolish a stubbornly entrenched dictator and now in Libya a [...]

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.

I was on To the Point with Warren Olney today to talk about Libya. Other guests were Vivienne Walt (Reporter, Time Magazine), Susan Glasser (Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy Magazine), Mohamed ElJahmi (Libya-American Activist) and Mansour El-Kikhia (Professor of Political Science, University of Texas-San Antonio) Mohamed’s brother, Fathi, died in 2009 after spending years in Gaddafi’s jails [...]

I was on Canada’s CBC to highlight the slaughter of Libyans rising up against Muammar Gaddafi and also on CTV to urge more international condemnation and awareness of business and oil deals at the expense of Libyan lives.

I was on Canada’s CTV on Saturday to discuss the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Libya and Bahrain and how U.S. interests weigh in on the geopolitics of several uprisings in the region.

By Mona Eltahawy Toronto Star, Jan. 21 2011 NEW YORK CITY—No sooner had longtime Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled his country after a 29-day popular uprising than the race of the naysayers began. On one side was the expected group: a host of Arab dictators. From kings and emirs whose monarchies ensured [...]

I recorded a video essay for TIME.com on the Tunisian revolution. [tweetmeme only_single="false"]

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"]

(Correction: Sudan had a revolution in October 1964 so Tunisia is a rare rather than first Arab revolution) “I will always cherish the day the dictator Ben Ali was toppled: in a true popular uprising, and not a coup” By Mona Eltahawy The Guardian, Jan. 17, 2011 Every 23 July for the past 58 years [...]

By Mona Eltahawy Washington Post, Saturday, January 15, 2011 For 23 years, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali presided over the most tightly run ship in the Arab world. So perfect a police state was his Tunisia, with its ubiquitous informers and portraits of the president, that no one predicted Ben Ali’s ship could capsize. But capsize [...]

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.

By Mona Eltahawy Huffingtonpost.com NEW YORK – My one and only visit to Libya was exactly 13 years ago to cover the 27th anniversary of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s coup. There were no flights into or out of the country, still under UN sanctions. Attending the celebrations were heads of African states Gaddafi had turned to [...]