If these debates were shown on Arab TV it would make a difference. A lot of students said after the debate that the arguments helped them see beyond the issue of the Arab world versus the West. They saw that it is not a question of us versus them but us versus us.
"Mona Eltahawy" is a freelance Egyptian-American journalist and commentator based in New York City. She gained American citizenship in 2011. She has written essays and op-eds for publications worldwide on Egypt and the Islamic world, including women's issues and Muslim political and social affairs. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and the Miami Herald among others. She has also been a guest analyst on U.S. radio and television news shows.
Eltahawy has also spoken publicly at universities, panel discussions and interfaith gatherings on human rights and reform in the Islamic world, feminism and Egyptian Muslim–Christian relations in addition to her other concerns.
More Mona Eltahawy on Wikipedia.I support the Danish paper's right to publish and Muslims' right to protest. This is a question of freedom of the press for the Muslim world as well. We have little freedom of expression, and much of the protest was manipulated.
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