Sunday, March 4, 2012

Have you seen this woman?


Her name is Dr. Sally Moore. She seems to have gone quiet. Has anyone heard from her? Where is she? Does anyone out there know?

She was one of the New York Time's "wired and shrewd" ; a group of liberals, socialists and Muslim Brotherhood members all holding each other's hands to oust Hosni Mubarak from leadership and usher in a new Egyptian government. She was so optimistic about events in Tahrir square.
“I like the Brotherhood most, and they like me,” said Sally Moore, a 32-year-old psychiatrist, a Coptic Christian and an avowed leftist and feminist of mixed Irish-Egyptian roots. “They always have a hidden agenda, we know, and you never know when power comes how they will behave. But they are very good with organizing, they are calling for a civil state just like everyone else, so let them have a political party just like everyone else — they will not win more than 10 percent, I think.”
I'm not the only one looking for her. Where did she go? I'm a fairly savvy internet searcher- I'm even using Google, since Google's Wael Ghonim seems to have helped the revolution along- but there aren't any links to her more recent than Feb 2011.

I really want to ask her about the new Islamist parliament (70% Islamist!), because the Brotherhood has done far, far better than Sally thought possible and I'm curious as to why she thought they'd be more unpopular.

I'm also very curious as to her take on the violence against Coptic Christians. There's this warm and fuzzy story from Al-Arabiya, but then again, it's reported by some human rights groups that 100,000 Copts may have left Egypt after the revolution fearing discrimination.

Maybe Sally was lucky enough to know some genuinely sweet Muslim Brothers. Maybe all is well there. I sure would like for someone to find her and get her perspective on the one-year anniversary of that Times' article.


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