Just a couple of comments on Maram Meccawy’s latest column in al-Watan daily: while I don’t think that she has changed all that much, it seems to me that she has become more open about expressing some of her conservative views recently. But I do agree with her that the general atmosphere in the country has become more polarized. Not that I think this is necessarily a bad thing. As I have said before, after a long time of intellectual monopoly, this country could use more controversy.
