5/11/2023 0 Comments Hijabs and hymensWe are Twitter friends, that modern phenomenon, a connection spurred by our shared feminism. I have never met Eltahawy, although we overlapped as foreign correspondents in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. This book, she says, is born of concern that even as political space opens in the Arab countries experiencing revolutions and upheaval, the freedoms of women are not only not expanding but in fact may shrink.Īs I read along into Headscarves and Hymens, I realized I wanted it to be a good book. You may remember her as the woman who suddenly seemed to be everywhere at the start of the Egyptian revolution, explaining the country to Western media. She grew up in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and London, and carries the mark of all three. Eltahawy is an Egyptian writer and journalist who now divides her time between Cairo and New York.
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