http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Eltahawy
http://www.loonwatch.com/2012/09/mona-el-tahawy-and-spray-painting-pamela-gellers-hate-ads/
Well-known Egyptian-American writer Mona Eltahawy was arrested Tuesday while defacing a pro-Israel ad with spray paint in a New York subway station.
A video published by the New York Post showed the activist spraying the ad at a Times Square subway station while another woman who supported the billboard's content, Pamela Hall, was standing against the wall to prevent her from doing so.
“In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel, defeat Jihad,” read the billboard, which was put up by the anti-Muslim American Freedom Defense Initiative led by Pam Geller.
Eltahawy tweeted that she believes in her right to object to the abusive ad, calling on followers to report on her arrest.
While being handcuffed by police officers, Eltahawy told passers-by to note that she was being arrested despite expressing her objection peacefully.
Eltahawy’s arrest triggered a day of widespread targeting of the controversial ads, according to the newspaper.
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Activist explains why she has no regrets about spray-painting anti-Muslim ads and how it's part of her goal of direct activism.
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Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning columnist and an international public
speaker on Arab and Muslim issues. She is based in New York.
She is a columnist for Canada's Toronto Star, Israel's The Jerusalem Report
and Denmark's Politiken. Her opinion pieces have been published frequently in
The Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune and she has appeared as
a guest analyst in several media outlets.
Before she moved to the U.S. in 2000, Ms Eltahawy was a news reporter in the
Middle East for many years, including in Cairo and Jerusalem as a Reuters
correspondent and she reported for various media from Egypt, Israel, Palestine,
Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia and China. Ms Eltahawy was the first Egyptian
journalist to live and to work for a western news agency in Israel.
Her public speaking has taken her around the world, including to the first
TEDWomen where she spoke about the virtues of confusion in breaking stereotypes
of Muslim women.
In 2010 the Anna Lindh Foundation awarded her its Special Prize for
Outstanding Contribution to Journalism and the Estlow International Center for
Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver gave her its Anvil of
Freedom Award.
In 2009, the European Union awarded her its Samir Kassir Prize for Freedom of
the Press for her opinion writing and Search for Common Ground named her a
winner of its Eliav-Sartawi Award for Middle Eastern Journalism.
Ms. Eltahawy is a lecturer and researcher on the growing importance of social
media in the Arab world. She has taught as an adjunct at the New School in New
York, the University of Oklahoma and the U.N.-mandated University for Peace in
Costa Rica.
Mona was born on Aug. 1, 1967 in Port Said, Egypt and has lived in the U.K,
Saudi Arabia and Israel. She calls herself a proud liberal Muslim. In 2005, she
was named a Muslim Leader of Tomorrow by the American Society for Muslim
Advancement and she is a member of the Communications Advisory Group for
Musawah, the global movement for justice and equality in the Muslim family.
write to info@monaeltahawy.com
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