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Arwa Mahdawi

Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist and the author of Strong Female Lead

March 2025

  • a women holding a child

    The Week in Patriarchy
    The anti-women ‘fertilization president’ who wants to have it both ways

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Aimee Lou Wood in The White Lotus

    Why is The White Lotus generating so much chatter about teeth?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Immigration passport control entry point queue for non US citizens at San Francisco airport

    Don’t visit the US – it just isn’t worth the risks right now

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Abortion Exceptions Texas<br>FILE - Abortion rights demonstrators attend a rally at the Texas state Capitol in Austin, Texas, May 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

    The Week in Patriarchy
    Arrested at gunpoint, charged as a felon: a midwife’s lot in anti-abortion Texas

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • I was always terrified of confrontation. Then I hit my 40s

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • The Week in Patriarchy
    The US assault on free speech is not going to end with Mahmoud Khalil

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • ‘Guess what? You don’t matter’: what Trump’s war on DEI means for every American who’s not a straight white man

  • The US’s plutocrats and politicians want more, more, more. Matt LeBlanc shows us a better way

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • No one’s buying Hunter Biden’s terrible paintings any more? I wonder why

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • The Week in Patriarchy
    The pink protest at Trump’s speech shows the Democrats aren’t coming to save us

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Wooden spoons are making us sick? I thought that was fish slices

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • First Trump threatened to nuke hurricanes. Now he’s waging war on weather forecasters

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • The Week in Patriarchy
    Even rightwingers are mocking the ‘Epstein files’ as a lot of redacted nothing

    Arwa Mahdawi

February 2025

  • Melania Trump and Donald Trump in formalwear

    Melania Trump doesn’t want to play the role of first lady – but she doesn’t mind making $28m

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • people wearing beanies hold signs in protest

    Is a Trump backlash on its way? Well, eggs are as expensive as ever – and you can’t eat the culture wars

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • a man gestures while speaking

    The Week in Patriarchy
    All the president’s friends, from Natalie Harp and Daniel Penny to Andrew Tate

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • New Zealand’s tourism campaign is not the world’s worst – and I should know

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Elon Musk keeps bringing his kids to work – and the reasons aren’t cute at all

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • The Week in Patriarchy
    Saying ‘women’ is not allowed, but ‘men’ and ‘white’ are OK? I’m (not) shocked

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • What is ‘conservative girl’ makeup, and am I accidentally wearing it?

    Arwa Mahdawi
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