An American expatriate, Maria Golia (mariagolia.wordpress.com) lives in Cairo near Liberation Square. Her work revisits popular preconceptions regarding cultural differences in order to emphasize the human constant, the dreams and schemes that drive us all (see WLT, March 2012, 42).
The following books offer insights into the hot, gritty quotidian of a desert nation and the machinations of an authoritarian power structure as integral to Egypt’s character as the Nile.
The…
