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By Mona Eltahawy Toronto Star Dec. 31, 2010 NEW YORK CITY—If the adventures of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have lulled you into believing censorship is a quaint fly we’re swatting into the past, then spare a moment for a young Palestinian man who’s been in jail for two months. Walid al-Husseini, 26, was arrested in [...]
Duke University’s first Muslim Chaplain, Abdullah T. Antepli – aka the Blue Devil Imam – and I recorded a conversation for Bloggingheads TV looking back on the past year for Muslims in America. Here’s the full conversation and here’s a part on what Muslims can learn from Jews, excerpted on the New York Times website.
By Mona Eltahawy Dec. 26, 2010 NEW YORK CITY – Take one comedian, mix in a beauty queen, throw in some bigots and an exploding crow and you’ll open an unorthodox window into the past year for Muslims in America. It’s been a tough year, so let’s start with the crow. One of the stupendously [...]
By Mona Eltahawy Toronto Star December 18, 2010 NEW YORK CITY The young woman who identified herself as Salma, 17, got straight to the point. “I was walking in the street to get a bunch of friends of mine from a certain pet shop when a middle-aged man stopped with his car beside me and [...]
By Mona Eltahawy Jerusalem Report Jan. 3, 2011 How do you discuss virginity with a class of American university students without the conversation sounding irrelevant to their lives or, worse, an exercise in exoticizing another culture? Women, sex and culture can be a Bermuda Triangle that threatens to demolish discussion through either defensiveness – when [...]
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), [...]
