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Mona Eltahawy, the author of ‘Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution’. | Source: openDemocracy
She is fast. She is furious. She is a runaway train. But she is not off her rails.
That is what I tweeted after hearing Mona talk about her new book, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution at an event organised by the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University.
Whether she was talking about her decision to veil and then, not to veil, her condemnation of sexual assaults on women in Egypt, or Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim racism in the wake of the San Bernadino killings she was articulate and angry with a breathtaking skill for crafting a clever soundbite.