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.

I contributed the following to a NYTimes.com Room for Debate asking “Will Egypt’s Youth Movement Be Pushed Aside?”. The other contributors are here. Stepping Up to the Challenge By Mona Eltahawy March 25, 2011 Young people are already stepping up to the challenge of forming a viable coalition with new initiatives like the Youth Revolution [...]

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 was on NPR’s On Point last week discussing Peter King’s congressional hearings on “Radicalization in the Islamic Community”. The other guests were Leila Ahmed, Asra Nomani and David Schanzer. I was also on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the hearings.