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Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

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What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Mona Eltahawy

Mona Eltahawy is a feminist writer and public speaker who lives in Cairo and New York City. She is the author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution.

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Mona Eltahawy

Slavery's Long Afterlife in the North

The anti-Blackness that thrives in the shadow of America’s more blatant record February 2018
At an event for her book at Montreal’s Grande Bibliothèque late last year, Robyn Maynard asked the audience of about five hundred to raise their hands if they had been taught in school about the two hundred years of Black enslavement in Canada. One man raised his hand. One out of five hundred. This in a…