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Mona Eltahawy
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Long overdue:
- A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced a resolution Wednesday calling on #Saudi Arabia to “immediately & unconditionally” release women’s rights advocates detained since May & tortured at orders of Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
Among the resolutions, lawmakers call on #Saudi Arabia to end male guardianship system. HOW LONG HAS IT TAKEN TO GET ATTENTION FOR GENDER APARTHEID?! Long overdue!
See link to resolution here
Every FUCKING day I post this: These #Saudi women’s rights activists have long fought to end the male guardianship system. Remember them. Demand their release.
#StandWithSaudiHeroes
- Male guardianship in #Saudi Arabia is GENDER APARTHEID.
- RELEASE detained women’s rights activists.

#EndMaleGuardianship #SupportSaudiHeroes
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Mona Eltahawy
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Sexual abuse is a pervasive and longstanding problem at madrassas in #Pakistan, an @AP investigation has found. In a culture where clerics are powerful and sexual abuse is a taboo subject, it is seldom discussed or even acknowledged in public. apnews.com/ddd9660f63ae44…
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Mona Eltahawy
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Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing confession & of sexual crimes vs minors & adults. He is 1st churchman who reached rank of cardinal to be defrocked in sex abuse scandals
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Mona Eltahawy
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I have long wanted my first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution to be available in Arabic, the first language I spoke. It is already available in 11 other languages. Soon, I will have good news about Arabic!
The English-language edition of Headscarves and Hymens is banned in #Saudi Arabia, #UAE, #Kuwait and probably #Qatar too. So you can imagine what it has been like trying to sell the Arabic-language rights!
And soon too I will have Arabic subtitles for FEMINIST GIANT Rants - my one-minute videos - and I promise I’ll be soon recording some rants in Arabic too. You can find all the rants on my YouTube channel - go look for it and subscribe 😘
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*Deep breaths*

It’s easy to get lost in the grief and outrage over Trump siding Saudi regime that thinks nothing of butchering peaceful journalists in consulates.

But hope is not all lost. Congress must act, and the American people can still help.

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