Mona Eltahawy

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mona Eltahawy
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Aug 1, 1967(1967-08-01)
Age	57
Birthplace	Port Said
Country	Egypt
Birth City	Port Said Governorate
Horoscope	Leo

Mona Eltahawy Biography

Mona Eltahawy is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on August 1, 1967 in Port Said, Port Said Governorate, Egypt. Mona Eltahawy, Arabic: mn.lTHw, IPA: [?monae?t.t.a?a:wi]; born August 1, 1967, is an Egyptian-American freelance journalist and social commentator, based in New York City. She has published essays and op-eds in international publications on Egypt and Islam, as well as women’s issues and political and social matters. Her work has been published in The Washington Post and The New York Times as well as the Christian Science Monitor and Miami Herald. Eltahawy published her first book Headscarves & Hymens in May 2015. Eltahawy is also a guest analyst on U.S. television news programs and radio. Her role in the creation of the hashtag #MosqueMeToo is also recognized.

Eltahawy served as the managing editor from 2003 to 2004 of the Arabic- language edition of Women’s eNews. This independent news site that provides information on women’s issues around the globe, was non-profit and non-profit.

She wrote a weekly column for the Saudi-owned, London-based international Arab publication Asharq Al-Awsat from 2004 to 2006 before her articles were discontinued by editor Tariq Alhomayed for being “too critical” of the Egyptian regime.

In 2009, The Economist said that Eltahawy used the phrase “the opium of the Arabs” referring to Israel, describing, as the magazine elaborated, “an intoxicating way for them to forget their own failings or at least blame them on someone else. Arab leaders have long practice of using Israel as a pretext for maintaining states of emergency at home and putting off reform.”

She immigrated to the United States in 2000, and was granted American citizenship in 2011.

Mona Eltahawy Net Worth

Mona Eltahawy is one of the richest Journalist from Egypt. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mona Eltahawy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Eltahawy worked as a reporter in the 1990s and was a correspondent for Reuters News Agency in Cairo, Jerusalem. Eltahawy wrote for The Guardian and The Washington Post as well as the International Herald-Tribune and U.S. News and World Report.

Eltahawy was a Port Said, Egypt native. When she was seven years old, her family moved to the UK and then to Saudi Arabia. She was fifteen when she went to Saudi Arabia. In 1990, she graduated from American University in Cairo with a bachelor’s and in 1992, she received a master’s in Mass Communication with a focus in Journalism.

Eltahawy was a board member of the Progressive Muslim Union of North America, during its existence, from 2004 to 2006.

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Eltahawy has also spoken publicly at universities, panel discussions and interfaith gatherings on human rights and reform in the Islamic world, feminism and Egyptian Muslim–Christian relations in addition to her other concerns.

Facts & Trivia

Mona Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Egypt. Mona Eltahawy celebrates birthday on August 1 of every year.