I november 2011 fikk Mona Eltahawy verdens oppmerksomhet da hun ble overfalt av politiet under den egyptiske revolusjonen. Hun svarte med å skrive det banebrytende stykket "Why do they hate ws?"--Med "them" som muslimske menn og "us" som kvinner. Det utløste stor kontrovers. I d…
In 2012, Mona Eltahawy wrote a piece in Foreign Policy entitled 'Why Do They Hate Us'; 'They' being Muslim men, 'Us' being women. It sparked huge controversy. Headscarves and Hymens will be a polemic based on this piece and Mona's own personal story. In November 2011, Egyptian r…
In 2012, Mona Eltahawy wrote a piece in Foreign Policy entitled 'Why Do They Hate Us'; 'They' being Muslim men, 'Us' being women. It sparked huge controversy. Headscarves and Hymens will be a polemic based on this piece and Mona's own personal story. In November 2011, Egyptian r…
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When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration …
"This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building, overshadowed b…
"This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building, overshadowed b…
This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building, overshadowed by…
Romanovene hersket over en sjettedel av verdens overflate. Hvordan klarte én familie å gjøre et krigsherjet fyrstedømme til verdens største imperium? Og hvordan mistet de alt? Dette er historien om de tjue tsarene og tsarinaene, alle inspirert av hellig autokrati og keiserlige a…