Zouhair Mazouz

Journalist, human rights activist and graduate student

...because I criticized the misogynistic treatment of women in predominantly Muslim societies, I was accused of racism. Against my own people.

I found out the hard way that liberal opinion-makers had coined a term for the likes of me: 'native informant.'

Getting It Wrong About Islam: Check Your Secular Privilege, Liberal America

It takes a certain amount of hubris, writes Zouhair Mazouz, to frame the religious issues of the Middle East through the lens of America’s culture wars.
Pictured: A Saudi girl gets caught in the crowd of women visiting Al-Masjid an-Nabawi or Prophet Muhammad's Mosque, which situates Muhammad's tomb, in Medina, Saudi Arabia, September 15, 2016. (Nariman El-Mofty/AP)