Thread by @monaeltahawy

The #ArabSpring may have been sparked by an Arab man — Mohamed Bouazizi, the #Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire in desperation — but they will be finished by Arab women.

feministgiant.com/p/why-do-they-…

Until the rage shifts from the oppressors in our presidential palaces to the oppressors on our street corners and in our homes, our revolution has not even begun.

#ArabSpring

When people took to the streets Dec. 2010...they were calling for employment,freedom,dignity.I think they weren't ready to accept freedom means all freedoms...women's freedom,sexual freedom,individual freedom.They're not ready for such a revolution
- Lina Ben Mhenni, Tunisia,2014

The real difference will come when I feel safe everywhere I go. If I stand here in the street, do you really respect me as a woman, can you guarantee my safety?
- Fatma Jgham, Tunisia, 2014

#ArabSpring

Our political revolutions will not succeed unless they are accompanied by revolutions of thought — social, sexual, and cultural revolutions that topple the Mubaraks in our minds as well as our bedrooms.

I wrote this in 2012

#ArabSpring foreignpolicy.com/2012/04/23/why…

It is the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring.

This is the dedication of my book that I wrote in 2015 about the need for a feminist revolution:

To the girls of the Middle East and North Africa: Be immodest, rebel, disobey, and know you deserve to be free.

Women will finish what the Arab Spring began. I said that in 2012 to the BBC and I continue to say it bbc.com/news/av/world-…

It is the job of a revolution to shock, to provoke, and to upset, not to behave or to be polite.

More here soon #ArabSpring

feministgiant.com/p/coming-soon?…

Equality is a practice, it’s not just about words, about having a nice clause in a constitution. Women are fighting many different types of extremism: economic extremism, cultural extremism, and various forms of violence.
- Fatma Jgham, Tunisia, 2014

#ArabSpring

The revolutions & uprisings known as the #ArabSpring may have been sparked by a man — Mohamed Bouazizi, the #Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire — but they will be finished by women. feministgiant.com/p/why-do-they-…

We might have removed Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, Muammar al-Qaddafi in Libya, and Ali Abdullah’s Saleh in Yemen, but until the rage shifts from oppressors in our presidential palaces to oppressors on street corners & homes, revolution hasn’t begun