"I left my husband a year after 9/11. Not because he was an American and I an Egyptian, nothing to do with culture or religion, nothing to do with 9/11. We brought out the worst in each other. But before we separated, we visited N.Y.C. one more time together for a friend’s engagement, and we went to pay our respects at the site of the attacks."
- Mona EltahawyJournalist Mona Eltahawy, who is Egyptian-American, has written extensively about women's rights, Arab-West relations, and her own experiences. She included a moving account of her marriage in one of her works, which sheds light on the difficulties of interpersonal relationships. Before 9/11, when m…