Maria Golia

The battle for Egypt’s constitution is under way, with the opposition decrying the hastily composed document’s failure to guarantee civil…

Back in March 2011, I bought a T-shirt in Tahrir Square with a bold Arabic “no” written in black on the…

It is horrific to watch military and CSF forces ganging up on defenseless citizens, on people who are actually running…

“Egypt will have free elections one day — I will vote in those, but not these!” declared a long-time labor…

If virtuoso violinist and composer Abdo Dagher were Japanese, he would have been declared a national treasure. As it is,…

Egypt, post-Mubarak. That long dreamt-about era has finally arrived.  A new Egypt! Youth! Revolution! I wonder how many Egyptians imagined…

I honestly thought Hosni Mubarak would never make it to court, that the blow to his pride would kill him,…

The revolution of 1952 was less the result of a clear, shared vision of Egypt’s future, than a consensual desire…

There’s a Sufi parable about the fictional Mullah Nasruddin who is crossing a river by ferry with a learned man…

Several years ago, I attended a posh dinner party where conversation turned to Gamal Mubarak’s chances of becoming president. Most…