I start from the premise that democracy is not only that form of government in which the sovereign power resides in the people as a whole…
Author: Maria Munoz
Maria Munoz
Maria S. Muñoz holds an M.A in Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo and a B.A in Oriental Studies from the University of Sevilla. She works for women’s rightsand writes about society and politics.
It’s three years to the day. Three years since 25 January 2011. Everything has changed at the speed of light, although nothing has really changed. What…
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died at age 85. Sharon had been in a coma for eight years when a stroke set him aside…
No one would have thought of Mohamed Morsy as a model democrat. However, the reality is that he rose to power as a result of the…
The hardline Islamist Egypt’s Salafist Al-Nour party said Thursday it will vote “yes” for the new draft constitution. Nader Bakkar, spokesman for Al-Nour said about the…
The first court session of Morsy’s trial has started on Monday at the Police Academy in Cairo. Egypt’s former president, Mohamed Morsy, has been accused of…
It’s been less than a month since the interim government of Egypt, perfectly fused with the military, decided to raze the protest camps in Rabaa Al-Adawiya…
In conservative societies, it is assumed that women are inept in all relevant arenas of life – especially politics. For instance, in 1952, Egyptian Grand Mufti…
I have been living in Cairo for a few years now. I live and work here. I walk the noisy streets of the capital, eat Egyptian…
On Tuesday, an Egyptian criminal court convicted 43 American, European, Egyptian and other Arab NGO workers for using illegal foreign funding to foment “civil unrest and…