The Fundación Tres Culturas, in collaboration with Casa África and Capitan Swing, is hosting the presentation of the essay The hymen and the hijab: why the Arab world needs a sexual revolution, by the Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy, who will be accompanied by Ángeles Jurado, journalist and communications technician at Casa África.
At The hymen and the hijabEltahawy makes a definitive condemnation of the repressive forces - political, cultural and religious - that reduce millions of women to the status of second-class citizens.
Regular contributor to media such as The Guardian, The New York Times o BBC, In November 2011, she was arrested, beaten and raped by riot police in her own country. She was appointed by Newsweek as one of its "150 brave women of 2012". Time presented her as "person of the year" along with other activists from all over the world and the magazine Arabian Business named her one of the 100 most influential Arab women.
Translation from English into Spanish will be provided.
Book sale and book signing after the talk.
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- This book will be the club's next reading Three with books.
- The Tres Culturas library has a lot of 30 copies of this work for group lending.
- Listen to the MUSIC LIST from Hymen and hijab.
Free admission with prior reservation.
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