Mona as Provocateur

Mona has tread a hazardous path, but she has garnered both friends and accolades along the way. This has made her voice even stronger, and her demeanor more self-assured. She has shed much of her cultural trappings, from the way she appears to the way she thinks, to become a public intellectual on the global stage. Yet, somehow her origins seem to determine her reputation, or lack of it, in both the Middle East and in the West. That is because what she has to say is still taboo for most societies. Her critical gaze falls on whatever she sees as unfair and unjust.