`Egypt needs a feminist revolution`: Mona Eltahawy ten years after the Arab Spring
(World News Egypt)

While attending the Arab Spring protests, Eltahawy was beaten and sexually assaulted. Ten years on, she reflects on violence against women and why Egypt needs a feminist revolution. The Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy paid a steep price for the freedom of her beloved Egypt: her involvement in the Arab Spring cost her two broken arms and the ownership of her body. Even though she was living abroad, Eltahawy put everything on hold to be in Cairo, but she could not imagine what would be waiting for her on the ground. Violence was rife: over 6,000 suffered injuries, while 846 people died throughout the pro-democracy protests against dictator Hosni Mubarak. The eye patch would even...