(CBC) Mona Eltahawy, a commentator on Arab and Muslim affairs, talks about the alleged beating and sexual assault of CBS reporter Lara Logan and the plight of women in Egypt
Egyptian-born journalists Mona Eltahawy and Farah Saafan discuss the repercussions of Hosni Mubarak clinging to power as his people trying to themselves of his hateful regime
On Thursday 25 September 2008, Ms. Mona Eltahawy delivered a lecture entitled Generation Facebook - How Blogs and Social Networking Sites are changing the Arab World. The main theme was that new technologies have given a voice to the voiceless, especially in the Arab World.
In the muslin world, blogging has become a venue for explaining and exposing political situations where normally people cannot express their dissatisfaction with their current realities. Women are also becoming more involved in denouncing oppression and discrimination through the web
In the muslin world, blogging has become a venue for explaining and exposing political situations where normally people cannot express their dissatisfaction with their current realities. Women are also becoming more involved in denouncing oppression and discrimination through the web
Mona Eltahawy,via Skype, comments on the brutal crackdown by the ruthless Gaddafi regime in Libya.
Mona Eltahawy, Egyptian writer and columnist, explains the similarities and differences with the other recent uprisings in Tunisia and Eggypt with Libya
(CNN) Discussing the "parallel universe" of Hosni Mubarak's regime cracking down on egyptians calling for democracy, on international journalists, and the like. She also mentions Omar Suleiman and his links to the Mubarak regime, torture and rendition
What we are witnessing now is two things: the death of a dictatorship that thinks it can continue to rule, and the death of the death of this kind of hypocritical foreign policy that for so long could speak with one side of its mouth and say we support the dictator and from the other side of its mouth say that we support democracy and the two are just not able to mix
Katie Couric spoke with Mona Eltahawy, an award-winning columnist and expert on the Middle East, about Egypt's reaction to President Mubarak's message to his people that he will not be stepping down
Columnist and blogger Mona Eltahawy speaks to Katie Couric about what role social media sites and "Generation Facebook" had in the birth of the uprising in Egypt
Columnist and blogger Mona Eltahawy speaks to Katie Couric about the potential for chaos if President Mubarak steps down immediately.
Mona Elthahawy reacts to the news of Mubarak's departure.
(Democracy Now! 02.01.11) Egyptian Columnist Mona Eltahawy on How the Youth Drove the Uprising in Cairo and Implications for Democracy in the Region
As Mona Eltahawy was listing off how momentous an event Egypt's uprising has been, and how it may signal a change in the way the United States approaches the Arab countries in the Middle East, siding with the peoples of that region rather than the dictators, the CNN pundits throw some cold water on such idealistic notions
As more pro-Democracy protests spread across the Middle East the differences between countries is highlighted
Commenting on the CNN Imam Feisal interview given by Soledad O'Brien
Second segment of Mona Eltahawy's response to questions on Imam Feisal's interview and Park51
Suzanne Malveaux reports on the 30 years of US support for Egypt, including Egypt's peace treaty with Israel. Interviewed are Egyptian Mona Eltahawy, Alan Dershowitz, and David Gergen, the former presidential advisor to Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton.
Mona Eltahawy is a freelance Egyptian journalist based in America who for a long period wrote a weekly column for the Saudi-owned international Arab publication Asharq Al-Awsat before her articles were discontinued for being "too critical" of the Egyptian regime. The ban imposed by Asharq Al-Awsat helped Eltahawy gain more credibility and she now writes essays and op-eds for different publications worldwide, typically on Egypt and the Islamic world, including women's issues and Muslim political and social affairs.
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is Brooklyn native who has been called "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer" and one of its "most distinguished defenders of individual rights," "the best-known criminal lawyer in the world," "the top lawyer of last resort," "America's most public Jewish defender" and "Israel's single most visible defender -- the Jewish state's lead attorney in the court of public opinion."
Mona Eltahawy is a freelance Egyptian journalist based in America who for a long period wrote a weekly column for the Saudi-owned international Arab publication Asharq Al-Awsat before her articles were discontinued for being "too critical" of the Egyptian regime. The ban imposed by Asharq Al-Awsat helped Eltahawy gain more credibility and she now writes essays and op-eds for different publications worldwide, typically on Egypt and the Islamic world, including women's issues and Muslim political and social affairs.
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is Brooklyn native who has been called "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer" and one of its "most distinguished defenders of individual rights," "the best-known criminal lawyer in the world," "the top lawyer of last resort," "America's most public Jewish defender" and "Israel's single most visible defender -- the Jewish state's lead attorney in the court of public opinion."
Mona Eltahawy and Michael Singh discuss what the talks in Egypt really mean
(CBC) Mona Eltahawy, an analyst and commentator on Arab and Muslim affairs, talks about the "day of departure" rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square
Mona Eltahawy on Al Jazeera (02.01.11) reacting to the speeches of Hosni Mubarak and Barack Obama
Mona Eltahawy comments on how Egypt's peaceful 18-day revolution didn't just bring down a dictator, it also toppled stereotypes about Arabs, who are often seen as violent and as a people who crave an iron-fisted strongman.
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"Hello, I'm an Arab and I toppled two dictators in one month!"
Those were the words of a young Arab celebrating on Friday the resignation of Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 30 years. Mubarak stepped down just weeks after an uprising in Tunisia toppled Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali's dictatorship.
But Egypt's peaceful 18-day revolution didn't just bring down a dictator.
It toppled stereotypes about Arabs, who are often seen as violent and as a people who crave an iron-fisted strongman.
And it's helping to topple media portrayals that perpetuate those stereotypes. Those very same strongmen - such as Mubarak - often use those stereotypes to ensure the silence of western allies. They would argue only they could control their violent population.
In Tahrir Square was Alaa, a blogger friend who took me to my first protests in Cairo in 2005. He returned to Egypt from South Africa for the revolution. Also marching were Egyptian-American friends. They all did me proud!
From tech savvy young people, to businessmen, to scientists and farmers - thousands upon thousands joined pro-democracy demonstrations that told Mubarak and the entire world something Americans will still remember from Election 2008: Yes we can, too!
Mubarak tried everything to push them back home but they served him notice - we're not scared of you anymore.
He sent thugs, water cannons, tear gas, and still they came out. More than 300 died and hundreds more were injured, and still they came. And just as importantly their demonstrations were filled with "Selmeyya, Selmeyya" - that's the Arabic word for "peaceful."
By toppling Mubarak they have shown fellow Arabs that it's possible to bring about change through non-violence.
Now it's sexy and cool to be an Arab revolutionary! What an intoxicating message for a part of the world where the majority is younger than 30.
And now the entire region is captivated by our freedom rally. The baton started in Tunisia, which handed it to Egypt, which is now ready to hand it to the next candidate.
Who's next?
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"Hello, I'm an Arab and I toppled two dictators in one month!"
Those were the words of a young Arab celebrating on Friday the resignation of Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 30 years. Mubarak stepped down just weeks after an uprising in Tunisia toppled Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali's dictatorship.
But Egypt's peaceful 18-day revolution didn't just bring down a dictator.
It toppled stereotypes about Arabs, who are often seen as violent and as a people who crave an iron-fisted strongman.
And it's helping to topple media portrayals that perpetuate those stereotypes. Those very same strongmen - such as Mubarak - often use those stereotypes to ensure the silence of western allies. They would argue only they could control their violent population.
In Tahrir Square was Alaa, a blogger friend who took me to my first protests in Cairo in 2005. He returned to Egypt from South Africa for the revolution. Also marching were Egyptian-American friends. They all did me proud!
From tech savvy young people, to businessmen, to scientists and farmers - thousands upon thousands joined pro-democracy demonstrations that told Mubarak and the entire world something Americans will still remember from Election 2008: Yes we can, too!
Mubarak tried everything to push them back home but they served him notice - we're not scared of you anymore.
He sent thugs, water cannons, tear gas, and still they came out. More than 300 died and hundreds more were injured, and still they came. And just as importantly their demonstrations were filled with "Selmeyya, Selmeyya" - that's the Arabic word for "peaceful."
By toppling Mubarak they have shown fellow Arabs that it's possible to bring about change through non-violence.
Now it's sexy and cool to be an Arab revolutionary! What an intoxicating message for a part of the world where the majority is younger than 30.
And now the entire region is captivated by our freedom rally. The baton started in Tunisia, which handed it to Egypt, which is now ready to hand it to the next candidate.
Who's next?
(CBC) Egyptian-born columnist Mona Eltahawy's reaction to the revolution and former president Hosni Mubarak's departure
Mona Eltahawy and Stephen Hadley discuss how the recent uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have affected the Middle East.
The horrors happening in Libya cities of Tripoli and Benghazi are discussed within the context of western influence and complicity with the Gaddafi regime.
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