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My family moved to Saudi Arabia from Glasgow when I was 15. Being a 15-year-old girl anywhere is difficult - all those hormones and everything - but being a 15-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia... it was like someone had turned the light off in my head. I could not get a grasp on why women were treated like this.

~Mona Eltahawy

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As a woman in Saudi Arabia, you have one of two options. You either lose your mind - which at first happened to me because I fell into a deep depression - or you become a feminist.

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All religions, if you shrink them down, are all about controlling women's sexuality.

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Authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism and militarism are inherently patriarchal and hierarchical.

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I like to call the Republicans the Christian Brotherhood of the U.S. so that my fellow Americans recognise the line that connects their mix of religion and politics with their Muslim equivalent in Egypt.

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Nothing protects women from the patriarchy of military regimes.

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I believe at the heart of any revolution for social justice and human dignity are consent and agency, the unequivocal belief that I own my body - not the state, not the church/mosque/temple, not the street and not the family.

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It was precisely my love of the First Amendment that made me join sidewalk activists in 2010 to support an Islamic community center's right to open in Lower Manhattan.

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Banning hate speech doesn't end racism or antisemitism. Social pressure does that. It becomes socially unacceptable.

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Too many on the Left are earnest about nothing at all, sadly. They've been rendered spineless by snarkiness - not least on Twitter.

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Biography

Nationality: Egyptian

Type: Journalist

Born: August 1st, 1967

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