An Arab Spring For Women

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 21, 2015

Mona Eltahawy, the Egyptian American writer and activist and the author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), argues for full equal rights for women in the Middle East.

→EVENT: Mona Eltahawy is part of the PEN World Voices festival with a ticketed appearance on May 9 at 7:30pm at the Crosby Street Hotel screening room. 

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