Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2015) is a book by Egyptian American journalist Mona Eltahawy. Eltahawy argues that the oppression of women is central to the Arab world's political and social problems. Mixing memoir, reportage and manifesto, she calls for a social and sexual revolution against misogyny in law, custom, religion and daily life across the region.

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Fareed Zakaria: “This week's book is "Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution." If you were interested in the discussion of Arab women revolutionaries, this book will take you deeper and unsettle you even more. It is a chilling account of the repression, formal and informal, that pervades the Arab world as far as women are concerned. It's also a touching, personal account of the author's own experiences. It's worth noting that, as of today, this book has not been translated into Arabic.”