Mona El-Ghobashy is a scholar of the history and sociology of politics in Egypt and the broader Middle East and North Africa, and author of Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation (Stanford University Press, 2021). She is Clinical Associate Professor of Liberal Studies at New York University.

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Writing on Public Books
This Too Is Gaza
“In Gaza, life unfurls as a treasury of daily surprises that many Westerners miss in their hurry to get through their days,” says a Palestinian journalist. How we are treated, he insists, does not define who we are.
Can a Revolution Endure Even after It Fails?
For a few years in Oman, revolutionaries freed slaves, founded water cooperatives, and sent women to school. Then came the counterrevolution.











