Mona Eltahawy
| Mona Eltahawy منى الطحاوى |
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Eltahawy speaking at the 2011 Personal Democracy Forum
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August 1, 1967 Port Said, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian/American |
| Education | American University in Cairo |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Website | monaeltahawy.com |
Mona Eltahawy (Arabic: منى الطحاوى, IPA: [ˈmonæ (ʔe)t.tˤɑˈħɑːwi]; born August 1, 1967) is a freelance Egyptian-American journalist and commentator based in New York City. She gained American citizenship in 2011. She has written essays and op-eds for publications worldwide on Egypt and the Islamic world, including women's issues and Muslim political and social affairs. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and the Miami Herald among others. Headscarves and Hymens, Eltahawy's first book, was published in May 2015. Eltahawy has also been a guest analyst on U.S. radio and television news shows.
Eltahawy has also spoken publicly at universities, panel discussions and interfaith gatherings on human rights and reform in the Islamic world, feminism and Egyptian Muslim–Christian relations in addition to her other concerns.
Eltahawy was born in Port Said, Egypt. Her family moved to the UK when she was 7 and then to Saudi Arabia when she was 15. She graduated from the American University in Cairo in 1990 with a bachelor's degree and earned a master's degree in mass communication with a concentration in journalism in 1992.
Eltahawy was a news reporter throughout the 1990s. She was a correspondent for the Reuters News Agency in Cairo and Jerusalem and has written for The Guardian, The Washington Post, the International Herald-Tribune and U.S. News and World Report.
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