{"id":39854,"date":"2025-04-26T06:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T06:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/i-left-behind-an-authoritarian-state-to-move-to-the-us-now-i-see-my-new-home-falling-to-the-same-dark-forces-mona-eltahawy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T06:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T06:16:31","slug":"i-left-behind-an-authoritarian-state-to-move-to-the-us-now-i-see-my-new-home-falling-to-the-same-dark-forces-mona-eltahawy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/i-left-behind-an-authoritarian-state-to-move-to-the-us-now-i-see-my-new-home-falling-to-the-same-dark-forces-mona-eltahawy\/","title":{"rendered":"I left behind an authoritarian state to move to the US. Now I see my new home falling to the same dark forces | Mona Eltahawy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from Egypt, I know a dictatorship when I see one. The same can\u2019t be said for the white voters who brought Trump to power<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s he done now?\u201d My parents live in Cairo and I\u2019m in New York City. We FaceTime once a week and that question is like a game we play. My parents ask about Donald Trump and I ask about Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, whom Trump calls \u201cmy favourite dictator\u201d. Aren\u2019t we Egyptian-Americans lucky \u2013 a dictator for each side of our hyphen.<\/p>\n<p>Tellingly, the \u201che\u201d my parents ask about has dominated our conversations lately.<\/p>\n<p>Mona Eltahawy writes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feministgiant.com\/\">FEMINIST GIANT<\/a> newsletter. She is the author of The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls and Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/apr\/26\/us-egypt-authoritarian-dictatorship-donald-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from Egypt, I know a dictatorship when I see one. The same can\u2019t be said for the white voters who brought Trump to power \u201cWhat\u2019s he done now?\u201d My parents live in Cairo and I\u2019m in New York City. We FaceTime once a week and that question is like a game we play. My &#8230; <a title=\"I left behind an authoritarian state to move to the US. Now I see my new home falling to the same dark forces | Mona Eltahawy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/i-left-behind-an-authoritarian-state-to-move-to-the-us-now-i-see-my-new-home-falling-to-the-same-dark-forces-mona-eltahawy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about I left behind an authoritarian state to move to the US. Now I see my new home falling to the same dark forces | Mona Eltahawy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}