Mona Eltahawy

(Egypt, 1967) is a feminist author, commentator and disruptor of the patriarchy. Her first book, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2105), targeted patriarchies in the Middle East and North Africa, and her second, The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls (2019), took her disruption to the global level. Her commentaries have appeared in media around the world and she creates video essays under the nom de plume FEMINIST GIANT, which is also the name of the newsletter of which she is founder and editor-in-chief.