Mona Eltahawy has been called a "warrior journalist." An Egyptian by birth, she was brutally attacked covering the so-called "Arab Spring" in Cairo. She has written for publications including the New York Times and the Washington Post. She's a frequent commentator on the BBC, CNN, PBS and Al-Jazeera, and she reported for To the Point during the Arab Spring five years ago. Now she's written, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, a controversial book about what's needed to accomplish needed change in the Middle East.
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