Eltahawy, Mona, Headscarves And Hymens. Why The Middle East Needs A Sexual Revolution , London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2015, pp. 256 Human rights activist and journalist, Mona Eltahawy, contextualizes Middle Eastern women’s repression in a net of political, cultural and religious forces that undermine the possibility of a new Arab Spring emerging as an organic revolutionary process for the upholding of human rights in the MENA region.