![]() ![]() Eltahawy speaks fast, beaded earrings swinging from her ears, often pausing to run her hand through her close-cropped hair she shaved her long red hair in May. Behind her is a framed portrait of the Egyptian blogger and women’s rights activist Aliaa Mahdy, by the Canadian artist Nadine Faraj. We are speaking via Zoom, with Eltahawy in Montreal, where she lives with her partner. It has become a kind of self-care for me since the pandemic began.” It’s a form of adornment, but it also connects me to my Egyptian heritage, because in ancient Egypt, men and women of all social classes wore eyeliner. ![]() “Holding that brush is like being a calligrapher, and I consider lining my eyes as a way of writing a love letter to myself. “It’s a ritual I gift to myself every morning,” explains the 53-year-old Egyptian author, journalist and feminist activist. E very morning, Mona Eltahawy carefully lines her eyes in thick kohl. ![]()
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