by Mona Eltahawy | Aug 28, 2005 | Opinion
Fundamentalists are the same everywhere. Last week I made that point by comparing Jewish fundamentalists and Muslim fundamentalists among Israelis and Palestinians. This week U.S. evangelist Pat Robertson adds Christian fundamentalists to the list. Last week, on a...
by Mona Eltahawy | Aug 21, 2005 | Opinion
Watching Israeli soldiers dragging Jewish settlers from Gaza was a reminder of just how much Palestinians and Israelis need each other. Without the “enemy”, Israelis and Palestinians would divide along the many fault lines that are barely concealed beneath the face of...
by Mona Eltahawy | Aug 14, 2005 | Opinion
Do Egyptians want a Muslim Brotherhood government? We will not know the answer to that question unless the ban on religious parties is lifted in Egypt . But for the sake of debate, this is a question Egyptians must ask. I devoted my column last week to an interview I...
by Mona Eltahawy | Aug 7, 2005 | Opinion
The first time I went to the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters in Cairo in the 1990s they insisted I wear a headscarf before I could meet their spokesman at the time, Mamoun Hodeiby, who has since died. This was one of only two occasions in my journalistic career that...
by Mona Eltahawy | Jul 31, 2005 | Opinion
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a Muslim issue. It is a dispute over land, it is about an occupation that must end and it is about a people who deserve a state. But it is not a religious dispute. For too long, the assumption that this is a religious conflict...
