![]() ![]() Turn to a random page of this book and you will find a statistic or anecdote to make your blood boil. She has now expanded that essay into a book, “Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution.” ![]() The Egyptian writer Mona Eltahawy was called all this and worse in 2012 when she published an article in Foreign Policy magazine titled “ Why Do They Hate Us?” Yet Muslim women who point out the appalling status of women in the Middle East are often branded traitors to their culture or attention-seeking contrarians who perpetuate the worst stereotypes about Islam and the Arab world. And in the United Arab Emirates, your father or your husband can beat you and remain fully compliant with the law so long as he leaves no mark. In Yemen, there is a 55 percent chance you will never learn to read. ![]() If you are cursed to be born a girl in Egypt, there is a 90 percent chance you will have your genitals cut in the name of purity. Bari Weiss of the Wall Street Journal reviews Mona Eltahawy’s “Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution.” ![]()
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