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I joke that one of the rare times Egyptians identify as African is when the national soccer squad is playing in the African Cup of Nations - and preferably winning it.

~Mona Eltahawy

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Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world.

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The fight against racism must be seen as a revolutionary one.

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Morality crusades unite military regimes and religious zealots alike.

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My feminism does not demand that a woman have an equal opportunity to torture, alongside men. Torture is no less wrong because a woman, not a man, carries it out.

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I do not celebrate the appointment of women to high positions in regimes where cruelty is a favored tool of governance by a patriarchy; if they accept, they are nothing short of foot soldiers of that patriarchy and the violence it has instituted.

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Feminism, as I see it, is not about counting women in key jobs.

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Some forms of veil are justified by the idea that you're not tempting men. Well how about men just behaving and keeping their hands to yourselves? How about, instead of criticizing how I dress, respecting me and my right to the public space?

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Women of color have always been kind of boxed in by the idea that the more you talk about the misogyny of your own community, the more you make that community look bad.

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To say that there is patriarchy in Arab culture is not denying women agency.

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Biography

Nationality: Egyptian

Type: Journalist

Born: August 1st, 1967

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