Mona Eltahawy (Arabic: منى الطحاوى, IPA: ) (born 1 August 1967, Port Said, Egypt) is a freelanceEgyptian-American journalist based in New York.
Eltahawy was educated at the American University in Cairo, from which she has an MA in Journalism. Before moving from her native Egypt to the United States in 2000, Eltahawy was a news reporter for a decade. She was a correspondent for Reuters News Agency in Cairo andJerusalem, reported from the Middle East for the UK's Guardian newspaper and was a stringer for U.S. News and World Report.
She wrote a weekly column for the Saudi-owned international Arab publication Asharq Al-Awsatfor some years before her articles were discontinued for being "too critical" of the Egyptian regime, she claimed in an article written for the International Herald Tribune in 2006.
However, the ban imposed by Asharq Al-Awsat's editor in chief, Tariq Alhomayed, gave Eltahawy a platform and she now writes essays and op-eds for publications worldwide onEgypt and the Islamic world, including women's issues and Muslim political and social affairs. Eltahawy is active in the Progressive Muslim Union, and has been a strong critic of the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and the Miami Herald among others.
Eltahawy is a frequent guest analyst on U.S. radio and television news shows. She also speaks publicly at universities, panel discussions and interfaith gatherings on human rights and reform in the Islamic world, feminism and Egyptian Muslim-Christian relations in addition to her other concerns. From 2002 to 2004, she was managing editor of the Arabic-language version of Women's eNews, an independent, non-profit news website that covers women's issues from around the world.
The Economist in 2009 credited Eltahawy with coining the phrase "the ", referring to "an intoxicating way for (Arab leaders) to forget their own failings or at least blame them on (Israel). Arab leaders have long practice of using Israel as a pretext for maintaining states of emergency at home and putting off reform."
On 24 November 2011, she tweeted (@monaeltahawy) "beaten arrested in interior ministry" amid renewed protests in Tahrir Square. She was held in custody for 12 hours and accused those who held her of physical and sexual assault. Her left arm and right hand were fractured.
Eltahawy is a board member of the Progressive Muslim Union of North America.
GlobalPost (blog)
- Feb 03, 2012
2, joined on stage (L to R) by Egyptian-American journalist and activist Mona Eltahawy, Harvard professor Tarek Masoud and GlobalPost executive editor and co-founder Charles Sennott. (Gary Knight/VII/GlobalPost) CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
Harvard Crimson
- Feb 09, 2012
The panel, which included Harvard Kennedy School Professor Tarek Masoud and journalist Mona Eltahawy, praised the new self-determination of the Egyptian people and expressed a cautious optimism despite the inherent “messiness” of Egypt's transition to ...
Jerusalem Post (blog)
- Feb 12, 2012
Some 24 hours later, it had 381 tweets and 523 Facebook “likes”, and there were the beginnings of a Twitter intifada: word of the evil designs of the wicked Likudniks had reached the popular Egyptian-American writer Mona Eltahawy, who send out a tweet ...
Kent News
- Feb 22, 2012
One - Mona Eltahawy - had both her arms broken during a beating by Egyptian security forces. “These assaults followed the sexual attack on Lara Logan, from CBS earlier last year. “High profile journalists - all of them female.
Worldcrunch
- Feb 23, 2012
There were some terrible stories, like the two journalists [Caroline Sinz and Mona Eltahawy] who were raped right in the middle of the crowds. But there was never any question of summary executions. In Libya, it was a war with some dangerous moments.
UK Progressive Magazine
- Feb 08, 2012
#Egypt#Jan25 @monaeltahawy #Egypt revolution isn't 1 person but mass uprising. Needs a face or else #Mubarak's war of attrition will wear it down. Make @ghonim face NOW Egypt had its hero and suddenly the Revolution was no longer an inconvenience.
RH Reality Check (blog)
- Feb 08, 2012
The journalist Mona Eltahawy, who was arrested, beaten, and sexually assaulted in Egypt tweeted that “the whole time I was thinking about the article I would write; just you fuckers wait!” She was “bruised but defiant” as she recounted her ordeal in ...
UK Progressive Magazine
- Feb 12, 2012
@monaeltahawy Tweeps – that baton #Tunisia passed to us in #Egypt is itching to move. So, once again: who wants the Revolutionary Baton? #Jan25 Yalla! @nolanjazeera Can u even believe that people power just brought down the most powerful Arab leader .
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