By Mona Eltahawy Column from Issue 15, November 10, 2008 of The Jerusalem Report.  I became a feminist in Saudi Arabia, a liberal, secular Muslim in Israel and soon after a bumble bee. Let me explain. I was born in Egypt just after the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict but I’m a foolish optimist and so I [...]

What will the Middle East look like in 2033? That was the assignment the World Policy Institute gave me for their 25th anniversary edition. I decided to have fun and imagine! This is what I came up with – mixing real people in scenarios I imagined for them in 2033. Who knows? They might come [...]

I spent a week recently at the University for Peace in Costa Rica, lecturing on how blogs and Facebook give a voice to the voiceless in the Arab world and talking to classes about my work. UPEACE media centre interviewed me for the university’s website and posted it on YouTube: How do you define “media”? [...]