Confronting anti-black racism in the Arab world | Egypt News | Al Jazeera
Jul 7, 2013 — The Arab slave trade is a fact of history, and anti-black racism in the region is something that must be addressed.
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2013/7/7/confronting-anti-black-racism-in-the-arab-world
Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) Tweeted:
Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world. The trade that sent enslaved Africans east of the continent has yet to have a similar reckoning — incomplete as it is — as that which headed west of Africa.
#BlackLivesMattters
June 5, 2020 https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1268986745951043589?s=20
Opinion: ‘Black Panther’ and the anti-black racism of Egyptians
Chadwick Boseman in “Black Panther.” (Marvel Studios/Disney via AP)
Opinion by Mona Eltahawy
March 16, 2018
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Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world. The trade that sent enslaved Africans east of the continent has yet to have a similar reckoning — incomplete as it is — as that which headed west of Africa. The word “abeed” (slave) is casually a used to refer to people who are black in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/03/16/black-panther-and-the-anti-black-racism-of-egyptians/
Opinion | The Arab world’s dirty secret
By Mona Eltahawy
Nov 10, 2008 — We are a racist people in Egypt and we are in deep denial about it. On my Facebook page, I blamed racism for my argument and an Egyptian man wrote to deny that we are racists and used as his proof a program on Egyptian Radio featuring Sudanese songs and poetry! ...
The racism I saw on the Cairo Metro has an echo in the Arab world at large...
We love to cry “Islamophobia” when we talk about the way Muslim minorities are treated in the West and yet we never stop to consider how we treat minorities and the most vulnerable among us...
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/opinion/10iht-edeltahawy.1.18556273.html