Author: 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.

Your Hotmail account… probably your first email address ever. The email address you barely check and when you do, there is nothing interesting, only spam. The…

Last Friday, U.N’s Human Rights Office accused Bashar el Asad’s troops of going from house to house, razing areas considered opposition strongholds and killing rebels and…

Former intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, has died in the US while undergoing medical treatment. No specific cause of death has been given. Suleiman, 76, served as…

“Cartoonist Capture the Arab Revolutions” is a beautifully done series on Arab cartoonists. Produced by Samar Media, these five personal interviews of around seven minutes each,…

Last Sunday, the decision took by the Supreme Constitutional Court and carried out by the Supreme Court of the Armed Forces to dissolve the parliament has…

I am not Egyptian, but I live in Egypt. And I truly love this country; people’s hospitality, the atmosphere, the hidden places, the music, el foul…

The Presidential Elections Commission has announced that Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate, will be the next president of Egypt. After one hour of tense wait, during…

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces continue to play a historical master stoke that is leaving everyone dumbfounded. In less than a week SCAF, hand-to-hand…

One day before the final round of the first presidential elections in the history of Egypt, we are witness of the deepest confusion in the sociopolitical…