mona eltahawy

Five people were busted for vandalizing the controversial anti-Muslim subway ads this week, but only one, Mona Eltahawy, spent the night down in the Tombs before being released the next day.

An activist spray-painting over an anti-Muslim ad in the Times Square subway station met some resistance from a counterprotester defending the ads.

NYC-based Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy is recovering from a brutal arrest by riot police while she was covering demonstrations near Tahrir Square in Cairo on Wednesday night.