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Look what was hanging outside a shop in Damascus’ Old City. Shops close by were full of t-shirts, key chains and posters of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Imam Ali, Hafez, Basel and Bashar al-Assad but Nabih Al Saghir’s Rainbow Stores wore its love clearly on the store door. Thanks to my good friend Magdi Abdelhadi [...]
Muslim Women and YouTube Imams By Mona Eltahawy April 6, 2007 To appreciate the absurdity of what it can mean to be a Muslim woman today you need a few fools Enter stage right: German judge Christa Datz-Winter whose claim to infamy was her refusal to grant a fast-track divorce to a German Muslim woman [...]
I’m often asked why I took off my headscarf and what it was like to remove it. This essay which I wrote for SaudiDebate.com last year answers some of those questions. Muslim Women Caught Between Would-Be Liberators and Would-Be Saviours By Mona Eltahawy August 8, 2007 Iranian photographer and writer Haleh Anvari, is fed up [...]
In 2006-2007, I wrote monthly columns for SaudiDebate.com, an online liberal forum on the Middle East. Unfortunately, it is now defunct so I’ll be republishing here on my blog some of my favourite pieces that I wrote for them, starting with this one from February 2007. What Does a Muslim Look Like? By Mona Eltahawy [...]
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By Mona Eltahawy DOHA – What if the rest of the world had a say in the U.S. Elections? Well, a large part of it did during the latest episode of “The Doha Debates”- a monthly forum on Arab and Muslim issues aired on BBC World to a potential audience of nearly 300 million viewers [...]
