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Articles of the author Mona Eltahawy
Hey America: I'm Muslim, let's talk
NEW YORK: I have developed an overwhelming urge to tell everyone I meet I'm a Muslim. As a Muslim woman who doesn't wear a headscarf, I'm often mistaken for a Latina and other ethnicities that my features match. But as anti-Muslim sentiment has (...)

15 - 09 - 2010
Hey, America: I'm a Muslim, let's talk
NEW YORK, New York: I have developed an overwhelming urge to tell everyone I meet I'm a Muslim. As a Muslim woman who doesn't wear a headscarf, I'm often mistaken for a Latina and other ethnicities that my features match. But as anti-Muslim (...)

15 - 09 - 2010
Muslim Americans have a history before 9/11
NEW YORK, New York: I live in Harlem on a street that is home to three churches and a mosque. The mosque is next door to one of those churches and when male congregants mingle on the sidewalk, it's impossible to tell who had just been in church and (...)

14 - 09 - 2010
Muslim Americans have history before 9-11
NEW YORK: I live in Harlem on a street that is home to three churches and a mosque. The mosque is next door to one of those churches and when male congregants mingle on the sidewalk, it's impossible to tell who had just been in church and who in the (...)

12 - 09 - 2010
Israel is the opium of the people and other Taboos
NEW YORK - "Why aren't you as an Arab lady writing about Gaza? "Where are your columns about Gaza? "Say the Israelis are wrong! The messages started to arrive soon after Israel's bombardment of Gaza killed close to 300 Palestinians. Implicit was the (...)

30 - 12 - 2008
Generation Facebook
On any given day, the social networking site Facebook connects long lost friends and allows you to "poke attractive strangers you wish would be your friends. But in Egypt, Facebook is the stage for the latest twist in the generation gap, playing (...)

02 - 05 - 2008
A responsible response to Geert Wilders
As soon as I heard that right wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders' anti-Islam film had been uploaded onto an internet site, I did what any self-respecting Muslim would do: I clicked on the link and prepared to be offended. Talk about anti-climax! (...)

03 - 04 - 2008
Egypt targets moderate Muslim Brothers
Khaled Hamza Salam and I are on opposite ends of the political spectrum. He is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition movement, which wants to turn Egypt into an Islamic state. I am a secular, liberal Egyptian woman for whom (...)

06 - 03 - 2008
At the Altar of Palestine
After he scored a goal in a recent match against Sudan in the African Nations Cup, Egyptian soccer star Abou Trika lifted his jersey to show an undershirt inscribed with the message "Sympathize with Gaza . His message earned him a yellow card for (...)

07 - 02 - 2008
Sadat and Annapolis
Is there a statute of limitations for saying I told you so ? And can the dead say it? I can imagine the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat whispering those very words into the ears of Arabs and Israelis called to Annapolis later this month by (...)

23 - 11 - 2007
I will stand up for the Muslim Brotherhood
NEW YORK: The first time I went to interview the Muslim Brotherhood, in 1995, an officer at their headquarters gave me a headscarf to wear. The second time I went to interview the Muslim Brotherhood, in 2005, no headscarf awaited me. I was (...)

10 - 10 - 2007
What use were all the wars?
VELEN, Germany: If turning 40 isn t challenging enough, try preparing for this milestone when you re as old as one of the worst defeats Arab armies ever suffered at Israeli hands. Wars mark time and generations in the Middle East, so it s difficult (...)

07 - 08 - 2007
Despite early hope: like father, like son
The first time I met Anwar Al-Bunni, in June 2005, one of Syria's numerous state-owned newspapers had just called him a traitor. Over tea that he made himself and countless cigarettes that he smoked as furiously as he defended human rights, Bunni (...)

14 - 05 - 2007
Hosni Mubarak's regime won't delete Egypt's bloggers
Abdul Karim Nabil, the 22-year-old Egyptian blogger sentenced to three years in jail for insulting Islam, and an additional year for "insulting President Hosni Mubarak, was not born when Mubarak came to power. It is at once sadly pathetic and oddly (...)

06 - 03 - 2007
Unfortunately, strangers on a train
I was on the evening train from Washington to New York, happily reading a book, when I overheard a sliver of conversation that would make it impossible to concentrate and remind me just what an uphill struggle it could be to be a Muslim in America, (...)

10 - 04 - 2006
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