by Mona Eltahawy | Oct 4, 2005 | Opinion
CAIRO – As Karen Hughes, the newly appointed head of U.S. public diplomacy, began her first visit to the Middle East last week, an Arab newspaper published a cartoon of the “Ugly American”. It showed President George Bush sitting in front of a mirror, with a thick...
by Mona Eltahawy | Sep 27, 2005 | Opinion
CAIRO – Osama Bin Laden did the Muslim world a favor. Yes, I am serious. And no, I am not a Muslim militant who is celebrating an imagined victory against Dar al-Harb. Bin Laden and his terrorist cohorts did us a favour because they shook us free of the...
by Mona Eltahawy | Sep 20, 2005 | Opinion
CAIRO – Syria is surrounded by trouble on its right and left – Lebanon and Iraq – and the United States is mired in trouble in Iraq. And yet Damascus and Washington seem intent on escalating a war of words instead of figuring out how to work together...
by Mona Eltahawy | Sep 13, 2005 | Opinion
CAIRO – Egypt’s first contested presidential election on Wednesday brought few surprises. President Hosni Mubarak won 88.6 percent of the vote, giving him a fifth six-year term in office. This was no surprise. But I did not return home expecting a surprising result....
by Mona Eltahawy | Sep 4, 2005 | Opinion
CAIRO – On Wednesday, Egyptians will for the first time choose a president from among several candidates. And so I have come to Cairo to watch my fellow Egyptians cast their votes and to ask: is this democracy? I got an answer before I even left Cairo airport. I...
