The War on Women: Sex, Politics and the New Middle East
Channel: New America
Date: 2012-05-01

The War on Women: Sex, Politics and the New Middle East

This conversation with writers Mona Eltahawy and Karim Sadjadpour, who take on one of the region's most pressing -- if often unspoken -- subjects in new articles for Foreign Policy's first-ever Sex Issue.

In "Why Do They Hate Us?" Eltahawy, a writer and activist who grew up in the region and was recently assaulted near Tahrir Square, describes the litany of abuses faced by women, even in revolutionary Egypt. In "The Ayatollah Under the (Bed)sheets," Sadjadpour tells us that, to really understand Iran, we better pay less attention to their nuclear aspirations and a lot more to their leaders' strange sexual obsessions.

Drinks will follow the discussion.
Participants

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Mona Eltahawy
Egyptian-American freelance journalist and columnist

Karim Sadjadpour
Senior Associate, Middle East Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Moderator
Susan Glasser
Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy

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