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Mona Eltahawy
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This @4corners episode is an invaluable indictment of #Saudi gender apartheid. Thank you @Sophiemcneill for your reporting & my love & solidarity with all the incredible Saudi women who escaped & spoke, incl @rahaf84427714 @nourahfa313 & @MohaimeedShaha1
And to Dina Ali Lasloom & #Saudi women who tried to escape but were forcibly returned:we remember you. I am sorry we let you down but I vow to continue yelling about #Saudi gender apartheid until Saudi women can live freely & w/dignity in their own country
And we must continue to demand the release of #Saudi women’s rights activists who’ve long fought to end the male guardianship system. They have been detained since May and tortured at the orders of Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman. Remember them.
#Saudi women’s rights activists who’ve fought to end guardianship system have been detained since May and tortured at the orders of Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman. Remember them. Demand their release. #EndMaleGuardianship #EndGenderApartheid
And special thanks to @SarahRubyWrites for all that you do - known and unknown. Love and solidarity ❤️✊🏽💜
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Mona Eltahawy
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I want to remind you all of this as you see one after the other news report of the Pope’s “historic” sermon in the #UAE, with countless pictures of teary-eyed women and reminders of “pledges of fraternity” cbsnews.com/news/pope-fran…
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The #Saudi regime’s “Authority to Counter-Extremism” has made a one-minute ad in which it conflates women who escape Saudi male guardianship with men who join ISIS and other violent extremist groups. The conflation of feminism with terrorism. I am writing about this. Wow.
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Mona Eltahawy
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I’m not sure if it’s a good or a bad thing that I don’t know these “phonies” in publishing who keep being exposed.
Every now and then I’ll see quite a few people on my timeline talking about some new scandal, and I’ll go looking for the exposé and yet again I think “who is that person??!”
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