Thread by @monaeltahawy

I see @ircpresident has been liking my tweets about journalist and activist Wael Abbas’ detention in 2018. Several women have come out over the past month to say Wael sexually assaulted and/or harassed them. I believe the women. My position on assault and believing women is clear

I spoke to @writtenbysalma recently about the importance of women speaking out against sexual violence in #Egypt bbc.com/news/world-mid…

#Egyptian women have long been exposing sexual violence, at great personal risk. In 2005, female journalists and activists exposed the use of systematic sexual violence by the government of Hosni Mubarak to stop them from protesting. I wrote this in 2018 google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…

The more recent cases have been especially brave because they expose sexual violence by often popular individuals - a director, activists, journalist - or just regular men, not regime police. I call it a fuck-this-shit moment for Egyptian women.

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1345750925164617729

And the punishment by State, Street, and Home is harsh. Patriarchy will always punish us for fighting back and will attempt to terrorize us into silence reuters.com/article/us-egy…

The revolutions that began 10 years ago in the Middle East and North Africa might have been started by a man. They will be completed by women and queer people too often marginalized and ignored and subjected to violence by the State, Street and Home.

In 2012, I told the BBC that women will complete the revolutions that began 10 years ago

bbc.com/news/av/world-…

A friend tells me she can’t sleep from the fuckery and injustice. And her rage at lack of support from too many men

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1345750925164617729?s=21

This moment is one of not just reckoning but also of clarity, a test that many men are failing. Men of the left, of the Muslim Brotherhood, men who oppose the regime can all understand how the regime hurts them. But those men refuse to see their complicity, how they hurt us