For a few years in Oman, revolutionaries freed slaves, founded water cooperatives, and sent women to school. Then came the counterrevolution.

Mona El-Ghobashy
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.