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" There was always something sickening about tourists taking pictures of themselves posing in front of that big gaping hole called Ground Zero. "
Mona Eltahawy
Pictures
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Always
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" Across the globe, fundamentalists of all religions are on one side, and their attitudes towards women and towards female sexuality are almost identical. "
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" I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies. "
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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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" I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the less of you I can see, the closer you must be to God. "
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You
" 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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Body
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" I know Obama knows better than George W. Bush. "
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Than
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" As an Egyptian-American, I want both sides of that hyphen to enjoy the forms of freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, as I want both sides of that hyphen to move beyond the deceptive simplicity of the question, 'Why do they hate us?' "
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Hate
Want
" In 1993, I joined Reuters as a correspondent in its Cairo bureau. "
Mona Eltahawy
Correspondent
Bureau
Joined
" Nothing protects women from the patriarchy of military regimes. "
Mona Eltahawy
Military
Nothing
Patriarchy
" All religions, if you shrink them down, are all about controlling women's sexuality. "
Mona Eltahawy
Women
Religions
Sexuality
" I avoid continuously writing or tweeting about ISIS, as it centres them in the narrative and we end up reacting to them and reacting to the agenda they set. "
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Up
Avoid
End
" 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. "
Mona Eltahawy
You
Deep
Depression
" As Muslim women, we're not waiting for the president of the United States to open doors for us or to fight our fights. "
Mona Eltahawy
Waiting
Open
Us
" The military belongs in its barracks, not our ballot boxes. "
Mona Eltahawy
Boxes
Belongs
Ballot
" This ISIS group, they attack Muslims more than they attack anyone else. "
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Group
More
Else
" When the only two sides fighting are conservative - even if one of them is just conservative in appearance - then everyone loses. And women don't just lose; they're also used as cheap ammunition. "
Mona Eltahawy
Appearance
Fighting
Lose
" We are fighting misogynists in every culture. My solution is to listen to the women in each community and amplify their voices. "
Mona Eltahawy
Women
Fighting
Culture
" Authenticity has never been Barbie's strong suit. "
Mona Eltahawy
Strong
Authenticity
Barbie
" Too many on the Left are earnest about nothing at all, sadly. They've been rendered spineless by snarkiness - not least on Twitter. "
Mona Eltahawy
Too
Been
Left
" When Mubarak does die, he will be remembered as the most bland of those military men turned dictators: compare him with Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Anwar Sadat. The legacies most associated with him are a network of bridges and highways and 'stability.' "
Mona Eltahawy
Will
Bridges
Military
" When we complain to Egypt's Western allies about whichever autocrat is in power, we are asked, 'But who is the alternative?' It is a question designed to frustrate. "
Mona Eltahawy
Complain
Question
Power
" Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world. "
Mona Eltahawy
Just
Problem
World
" In Saudi Arabia - recognized as one of the worst violators of women's rights - women outnumber men on university campuses and yet are treated like minors who need a male guardian's permission to do the most basic things. "
Mona Eltahawy
Women
Rights
Need
" When Tunisians overthrew Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 29 days and Egyptians Hosni Mubarak in 18 days, it was an appropriate rebuke to dictators and Bin Laden. "
Mona Eltahawy
Egyptians
Dictators
Days
" I was born in Egypt, and my family moved to London when I was seven. I grew up mostly in Clapham, where I also went to school after a brief stint in Whitechapel. "
Mona Eltahawy
Born
School
Family
" I'm a survivor. I'm a messenger. "
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Messenger
Survivor
" Good riddance, Bin Laden - an unwelcome squatter in the house of my religion who tore down all the walls and was prepared to throw them on a fire to keep himself warm. "
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Fire
Down
Walls
" I started off at a local newspaper called 'The Middle East Times,' which is no longer in existence. I remember one of the earliest stories that I wrote for them was a study about domestic violence in Egypt from a government-run research institute think tank. "
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Think
" I left my husband a year after 9/11. Not because he was an American and I an Egyptian, nothing to do with culture or religion, nothing to do with 9/11. We brought out the worst in each other. But before we separated, we visited N.Y.C. one more time together for a friend's engagement, and we went to pay our respects at the site of the attacks. "
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Together
Worst
Time
" As a U.S. citizen, I cherish the First Amendment. "
Mona Eltahawy
First Amendment
First
Citizen