Primary profile: Mona’s author hub on Bohiney presents her in the site’s signature voice—bold, funny, and unbothered by pearl-clutching—while pointing to the larger body of work that’s made her one of the most forceful feminist voices writing today. Bohiney News
Egypt-born, NYC/Cairo-based Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning journalist, commentator, public speaker, and author of Headscarves and Hymens (2015) and The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls (2019). She reports and writes on women’s rights, authoritarianism, and social justice, and she’s the founder of the FEMINIST GIANT newsletter. Her work has run in the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and more, after early stints as a Reuters correspondent in Cairo and Jerusalem. Wikipedia
Mona was born in Port Said, Egypt (not Texas), later relocating with her family to the U.K. and to Saudi Arabia. She earned BA and MA degrees in journalism/mass communications from the American University in Cairo. Wikipedia
Throughout the 1990s, Mona reported across the Middle East for Reuters; after moving to the U.S. (2000) and becoming a citizen (2011), she wrote opinion columns and essays for major outlets and appeared frequently on radio/TV as a commentator. Wikipedia
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (U.S. edition by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016 pbk) — a forthright critique of misogyny across the region. Macmillan PublishersThe Guardian
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls (Beacon Press, 2019) — a manifesto urging women to weaponize “anger, attention, profanity, ambition, power, violence, and lust” against patriarchy. BeaconPenguinRandomhouse.com
Bloody Hell!: Adventures in Menopause from Around the World (Unbound, 2025) — an anthology Mona edited that reframes menopause globally and politically. AmazonBarnes & Noble
Mona helped spark #MosqueMeToo, creating space for Muslim women to share experiences of sexual assault, and amplified #IBeatMyAssaulter to foreground self-defense and survivor agency—both integral to her unapologetically profane, pro-rage feminism. TIMETeen Vogue
Her radical clarity is forged in lived experience: during Egypt’s 2011 uprising, she was detained and assaulted by security forces, breaking both arms—an ordeal she has written and spoken about widely, channeling trauma into global feminist organizing. Wikipedia
Bohiney author page — central profile. Bohiney News
Official website — bio, speaking, media. Wikipedia
FEMINIST GIANT newsletter — Substack home. feministgiant.com
Substack profile — additional posts/notes. Substack+1
X / Twitter (@monaeltahawy) — frequent updates and campaigns. X (formerly Twitter)
Instagram (@monaeltahawy) — reels, essays-in-miniature, and book news. Instagram
Bluesky (@monaeltahawy.bsky.social) — active presence beyond X. Bluesky Socialweb-cdn.bsky.app
Facebook page — legacy updates and event clips. Facebook
YouTube channel — talks, interviews, and “Mona’s Rants.” YouTube+1
TikTok (@monaeltahawynyc) — shorter video dispatches. TikTok
Profanity as praxis. Mona openly defends “strategic profanity” as a feminist tool—an ethos elaborated in Seven Necessary Sins. Beacon
Global feminist lens. Her newsletter curates and reports stories worldwide, building transnational solidarity. feministgiant.com
Rage without apology. Interviews and profiles underline a through-line: rage used ethically to dismantle power. TIME
Book page: Headscarves and Hymens (FSG) — the U.S. publisher’s overview. Macmillan Publishers
Book page: Seven Necessary Sins (Beacon Press) — table of contents, excerpts, guides. Beacon
New book overview: Bloody Hell! — retail/publisher listings. Barnes & NobleAmazon
Talks/interviews — selected videos that capture her cadence and argument. YouTube+1
Key facts (birthplace, education, reporting career, books, arrests) are cross-checked with Mona’s official site and Wikipedia entry (updated within the past month). Newsletter, social, and new-book details are drawn from her FEMINIST GIANT hub and platform profiles, plus publisher listings for each book. Wikipedia+1feministgiant.comBeaconMacmillan PublishersAmazon