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Mona Eltahawy

Born

in Port Said, Egypt

August 01, 1967

Website

http://monaeltahawy.com

Twitter

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Genre

Nonfiction, Religion, History

Influences

Nawal El Saadawi, Fatema Mernissi, bell hooks, Malika Mokeddem ...more

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Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning writer on Arab and Muslim issues and global feminism.

She is the author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2015) and The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls (2019), founder of the newsletter Feminist Giant, and a regular contributor to The Guardian.

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Average rating: 4.2 · 9,452 ratings · 1,410 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	It's Not About the Burqa by Mariam Khan (Author, Narrator), Malia Bouattia (Narrator), Yassmin Abdel-Magied (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.19 avg rating — 7,929 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution 4.17 avg rating — 4,922 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls 4.20 avg rating — 3,217 ratings — published 2019 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mona Eltahawy, Saleem Haddad 4.40 avg rating — 1,067 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America by Sheima Benembarek (Author, Narrator), Mona Eltahawy (Narrator) 3.86 avg rating — 752 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation by Adam Bucko, Matthew Fox, Mona Eltahawy (Foreword) 3.97 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bloody Hell! And Other Stories 4.23 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution by Don Stone Karl (Goodreads Author), Basma Hamdy, Mona Eltahawy 4.62 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What's Ours ما لنا by Myriam Boulos, Mona Eltahawy (Contributor) 4.64 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Feminist Investigative Journalism Handbook by Sophia Smith-Galer, Kiki Mordi, Juliana Rufus really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Mona Eltahawy (?)

“A male editor I once worked with tried to dissuade me from the personal: "Who care about what happened to you?" The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.

It does.”
― Mona Eltahawy

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“The battles over women's bodies can be won only by a revolution of the mind”
― Mona Eltahawy, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

tags: equality, feminism, gender, revolution, women, women-s-rights

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“I believe it's the writer's job to tell society what it pretends it doesn't know.”
― Mona Eltahawy

tags: writing

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Polls

The Atheist Book Club: August-September Group Read: Call to Vote (ends July 28)

Note: A shorter 2nd voting round will be created if a specific title is not clearly chosen by participants, or if specific titles are difficult to buy/borrow (at the discretion of the moderators' team)

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens

22 votes, 29.7%

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

10 votes, 13.5%

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris

5 votes, 6.8%

On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt by Richard Carrier

5 votes, 6.8%

Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life by Louise M. Antony

5 votes, 6.8%

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins

4 votes, 5.4%

Radical: My Journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awakening by Maajid Nawaz

4 votes, 5.4%

Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding by Steven K. Green

4 votes, 5.4%

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett

3 votes, 4.1%

Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy

3 votes, 4.1%

Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction by John Brockman

3 votes, 4.1%

Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue by Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz

2 votes, 2.7%

Everybody Is Wrong About God by James A. Lindsay

2 votes, 2.7%

Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef

1 vote, 1.4%

Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

1 vote, 1.4%

74 total votes

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