This is a Big One: North York Central Library presents Mona Eltahawy!
As soon as I heard about Mona Eltahawy's upcoming book entitled: Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, I knew I would be interested in this woman's work.
According to her official website, Mona (Egyptian-American activist and journalist) is an award-winning columnist as well as international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues and global feminism. She is based in Cairo and New York City.
Mona is a contributor to the New York Times opinion pages, and her commentaries have appeared in several other publications and she is a regular guest analyst on various television and radio shows. She appeared on most major media outlets during the 18-day revolution that toppled Egypt's President. In November 2011, Egyptian riot police beat, sexually assaulted and detained her. Eltahawy was named one of Newsweek's '150 Most Fearless Women of 2012.'
In her book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, (released this month), she crafts an argument about the complexity surrounding women's sexual and political identities in the Middle East and uses her experiences of sexual assault as well as her conflicted feelings about the hijab to unveil what she identifies as false choices for women in Islamic societies. Her book is very well-reviewed in Library Journal, which describes her account as "a strong, insightful, and well-researched analysis of many issues connected to Middle Eastern women's autonomy (e.g., the hijab, marriage, female genital mutilation). Her personal insights set this work apart."
Mona Eltahawy will read from her book at the North York Central Library Auditorium on Monday, April 27th, 2015. Free tickets are required and are available by clicking here.
Find her book and others of a similar subject at the Toronto Public Library below:
Link to the ebook version of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution:
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3262348&R=3262348
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I need 2 tickets for this talk on April 27. Please email tickets to address below.
hello Sybil and thanks for your interest. If you would like tickets you can go to the link I provided in the post (or here it is again: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mona-eltahawy-tickets-15997081702) or call the Society and Recreation Department number at North York Central Library at: 416-395-5660.