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Articles of the author Maria Golia
From Egypt With Love
Someone hung a large full-color banner in the center of the roundabout near my apartment during the demonstrations on June 30. It featured Anne W. Patterson, the U.S. ambassador to Egypt, with a red "X" across her face and the caption "Spinster, Go (...)

20 - 07 - 2013
Wrong About Tamarrod?
After 10 action-packed days of regime toppling and bloody clashes, Cairo is hunkering down for Ramadan, the month of fasting when Muslims forgo food, drink and tobacco from dawn to dusk. Traffic is thin in my downtown neighborhood but I can hear (...)

13 - 07 - 2013
Real battle in Egypt is not on the streets
CAIRO: On Feb. 3 I walked around my downtown Cairo neighborhood to see how the latest street battles were proceeding. They began again (for the third time in as many months) following a Feb. 1 riot in a Port Said sports stadium in which 74 people (...)

08 - 02 - 2012
Mabrouk, ya Masr?
I used to live in Bab El Louq and loved every dilapidated inch of it. Birds filled the mango tree outside my window, chattering like mad and occasionally, astonishingly, perforating their chatter with a second or two of perfect silence before (...)

30 - 01 - 2012
Against violence
It is horrific to watch military and CSF forces ganging up on defenseless citizens, on people who are actually running away without the least wish to engage in a fight. It is no less horrific, for me at least, to see civilians attacking soldiers (...)

20 - 12 - 2011
Betraying the revolution?
“Egypt will have free elections one day — I will vote in those, but not these!” declared a long-time labor activist whose work I deeply respect. When I suggested he should vote he was angered. “Why should I participate in rigged elections run by (...)

04 - 12 - 2011
Master violinist to perform at the Cairo Opera House
If virtuoso violinist and composer Abdo Dagher were Japanese, he would have been declared a national treasure. As it is, his outspoken stance toward the Mubarak regime and its interference in Egypt's cultural life meant that he was marginalized. (...)

19 - 10 - 2011
Post-revolution Egypt: Change or conformity?
Egypt, post-Mubarak. That long dreamt-about era has finally arrived. A new Egypt! Youth! Revolution! I wonder how many Egyptians imagined what it might be like, as the years paraded by, or if they imagined it at all. I often daydreamed about (...)

26 - 09 - 2011
The cage
I honestly thought Hosni Mubarak would never make it to court, that the blow to his pride would kill him, or else like some ancient Roman noble, that he'd fall on his spear or slit his wrists in the bath to rob the mob of the humiliating spectacle. (...)

05 - 08 - 2011
In search of a ''national project''
There's a Sufi parable about the fictional Mullah Nasruddin who is crossing a river by ferry with a learned man who asks if he has properly studied his grammar. The Mullah admits he hasn't. “Then half your life has been wasted” says the pedant. (...)

07 - 07 - 2011
Talking democracy
Several years ago, I attended a posh dinner party where conversation turned to Gamal Mubarak's chances of becoming president. Most guests said they didn't mind the idea and even supported it. They were intelligent, well-travelled Egyptians who might (...)

03 - 06 - 2011
Responsibility in post-revolution Egypt
The clarity of purpose that characterized the best moments in Tahrir is now but a fond memory. Egypt is like a family in an inheritance dispute; the fraternal rifts formerly suppressed by the father/tyrant are widening. Divided along sectarian, (...)

17 - 05 - 2011
Egypt beyond Mubarak
I've sometimes wished I was a fly on the Mubaraks' living-room wall watching the drama unfold. I pictured the former president, his customary tenacity perforated with moments of genuine bewilderment, his sons' and wife's urgent counsels, the (...)

16 - 04 - 2011
Egypt''s forgotten fellahin
Next time you slice a juicy red tomato, consider that rural Egypt is being bled to death. Arable land is vanishing to urbanization, coastal erosion, salinization and nutrient depletion; fertilizers and pesticides are contaminating what little water (...)

05 - 04 - 2011
Egypt introduces changes, much remains the same
Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) should be congratulated for its handling of the March 26 referendum. Well-scripted, timed, and executed, it also fulfilled the public's expectations. Everyone knew the vote would favor the institution (...)

30 - 03 - 2007
Egypt 2006: age, melancholy and usual vows of better
Cairo: Early in 2006, Transparency International, a Berlin-based assessment bureau, announced that Egypt's corruption index had improved from "highly acute to "rampant. Economist Ahmed al-Naggar wasn't the only one to remark that "rampant isn't good (...)

02 - 01 - 2007
For Egypt's women it's more harassment, fewer rights
"The Egyptians' lack of power over their lives is translating into a pervasive new style of interaction designed to provide some minimal illusion of strength. Shop girls are ruder, bands of school kids more antagonistic, tradesmen craftier, petty (...)

26 - 12 - 2006
Egypt's development projects only benefit the rich
The centerpiece of successful (i.e. long-term, organic) town and city development is usually a community enterprise or institution, concretized by a structure that declares the community s primary need or intent. For example, a harbor serving (...)

18 - 10 - 2006
Protests, demonstrations, a public outcry of anger
What it takes to make patient Egyptians stand up and be counted CAIRO: Egyptians surely rank amongst the most patient and non-confrontational of peoples. But every now and then they get fed up and explode. It happened in 1952 as a result of (...)

08 - 08 - 2006
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