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Mona Eltahawy – Writer and Activist

Mona Eltahawy – Writer and Activist

The Interview vor 13 Jahren

Is genuine liberation for women possible in the Arab world?

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Arabs have risen up against their repressive authoritarian
rulers, but what will their post-revolutionary societies look
like? In Egypt and Tunisia, power has shifted in the direction of
political Islam. Is that the culmination of the march to freedom?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Mona Eltahawy, who thinks not. The
controversial Egyptian-American writer and feminist says genuine
liberation is impossible while Arab men continue to hate Arab
women. In this era of uprisings is her message a wake-up call or
a dangerous distraction?