Permanence and loss - how tattoos helped me heal: Mona Eltahawy at TEDxAmsterdam
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- čas přidán 5. 11. 2013
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Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy never wanted to get tattoos. But after Egyptian police broke her arms and sexually molested her in November 2011 at the height of the protests against the Mubarak regime, she wanted to celebrate survival and chose a tattoo on each arm as the way to do it.
Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning columnist and an international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues. Her opinion pieces have been published frequently in media across the world, including The Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune and she has appeared as a guest analyst in several media outlets. She calls herself a proud liberal Muslim. In 2005, she was named a Muslim Leader of Tomorrow by the American Society for Muslim Advancement and Newsweek magazine named Ms Eltahawy one of its "150 Fearless Women of 2012".
I love this woman. I love surrounding myself with friends who have minds like her! More women need to be like this! Thank you Mona, you truly are an inspiration
Well-Spoken, Mona Eltahawy is a genuine Egyptian hero.
I respect this woman very much; don't agree on everything she says, but love her boldness, courage and honesty. Sitt ilkull miyya fil miyya. Also, she has gained some weight in Egypt (good!) :-)
I have enjoyed hearing her take on the Egyptian uprisings.
Love and solidarity
Great talk ! شكرا
Superb talk!
Object
An object can't hear
An object can't see
An object can't breathe
Like you
Or me
What's an object's motives
or deapth of reason to be?
What thoughtfulness, does an Object Have thoughts?
...who am I...
...why am I here...
...how and who should I outta be...
...can I be happy...
...am I sad...
We craft an object
We use an object
We define it's reason and meaning
Why it is and What it should function for
We specialize it's resourcefulness
And squiz out it's worth...until it's?
Useless?
Doesn't work?
Doesn't have the same woth
it used to have?
It's totally in our control
We define how long it should exist
Or how long it's in our presence
An Object we don't like anymore
Or have no care for we lose,...
Forget, dismental, discard, do things with it, without a shameful thouht
Well an Object has no feelings
It's just there
No emotion no motion no tensions
To care about
It doesn't speak
It is always the same
Does always the same it was made for
No smile no hurt
It's there because of you
You chose so
I't doesn't just apear out of nowhere
You baught it
Someone gave it to you
You saw it and wanted it to be yours
You can share an object
You can keep it for yourself
You can show it proudly or destainfuly
What ever you feel to do with it
You do
It won't mind
Well if I think about all this
I guess we can all agree
What an Object really is.
E. W
Hello Poetry
Referring to this woman as a journalist in the video description is a joke, right?