“My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egypt...” — Mona Eltahawy Quote

“My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s.”

“I was never one for dolls.”

“The first time I wore a head scarf, I was 16. I looked and felt like a nun. I missed the wind in my hair. For me, it was not a comfortable thing to wear.”

“I may be born in the U.K., but nobody takes away from the fact that I'm an Arab, and I'm proud to be Arab.”

“Social change doesn't happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation.”

“We've found that patterns of site looting have increased between 500 and 1000 percent since the start of the Arab Spring. Now this is a problem as old as human beings. People were looting tombs 5,000 years ago in Egypt as soon as people were buried, but the problem is only getting worse and worse.”