Martha y Maria: Women's Lives, Women's Rights: Mona Eltahawy, Egyptian American feminist

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Mona Eltahawy, Egyptian American feminist

Thank you to Mona Eltahawy for her courageous reporting on Egypt.

The NY Times published her opinion piece today on the death of Mohamed Morsi. She's an Egyptian American born in Port Said, Egypt. She speaks out on women's rights in the Arab world.

Mohamed Morsi Died in a Soundproof Cage: What six years of deliberate and sustained cruelty tell us about el-Sisi’s Egypt.

By Mona Eltahawy

Contributing Opinion Writer

Mona Eltahawy is a contributing opinion writer and public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues and global feminism. She is the author of “Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution,” and the forthcoming “The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls.” @monaeltahawy

See her work and awards on Wikipedia

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In memory of Martha Puebla & In honor of Maria Riveros

On a spring night in 2003, Martha Puebla, age 16, was shot in the face while sitting outside her home in Sun Valley, California, near Los Angeles. Her death was ordered by a gang member on trial for a murder she had witnessed.

On July 13, 2008, in San Ignacio, Paraguay, Maria Riveros took her pregnant 16-year-old daughter to the home of an obstetrician and asked her to perform an abortion. The fetus of about 4 mo. was buried outside the home, but there were complications and the next day Maria had to rush her daughter to a hospital, where a hysterectomy was performed. The obstetrician and her daughter, a nurse, were arrested and charged with performing an abortion.

This blog is dedicated to Martha, Maria and all women who courageously negotiate their lives in this world filled with gang warfare and international warfare, poverty and wealth, drug trafficking and addiction, and lack of access to birth control, legal abortion, and other health care.