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Smash the Patriarchy with Rage and Risk: Lessons from Mona Eltahawy

If you're still waiting for someone to save democracy, Mona Eltahawy has news for you: you are the one you've been waiting for.

A fearless Egyptian-American journalist and author of The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls and her latest book Bloody Hell!: Adventures in Menopause From Around the World, Eltahawy is no stranger to authoritarianism. While covering Arab Spring protests in Cairo, she was seized by Egyptian security forces and sexually assaulted and beaten, her arm and hand broken. Now, she warns, America is slipping toward the same strongman rule in Egypt. And too many are…

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