By Mona Eltahawy Al Arab NEW YORK – It was November 2005 and I was finally visiting the White House. Not the inside but the sidewalk outside, full of tourists posing with the home of the president behind them and diehard protestors in the corner of most of their pictures. One such protestor was a [...]

By Mona Eltahawy May 25, 2009 Jerusalem Report I am terrified of thunder. My mother thinks its rumbles trigger in me memories of the sound of bombs falling. She was pregnant with me during the 1967 war and remembers that whenever a bomb fell she would feel me kick inside her. During most of her [...]