Carol Berger

Carol Berger is an anthropologist who specializes in South Sudan. She is a former foreign correspondent, reporting for the BBC, The Guardian, and The Economist from the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. She lives in Cairo, Egypt.

Egypt and the Enemy Within

Carol Berger and Marie-Jeanne Berger report on recent developments in Egypt, in the wake of attacks on security forces and civilians....

CAROL BERGER, MARIE-JEANNE BERGER

AROUND THE WORLD

POLITICS

Egypt has a New President and Everything is Normal

CAIRO: I came home one Sunday to find a repairman working on my building’s elevator. The wrought-iron cage was open, the elevator box stopped six feet short of the ground. A heavy, early 20th-century wheel lay on the marble floor, ...

CAROL BERGER

Egypt’s Last Day of Democracy

Waiting for the end....

MARIE-JEANNE BERGER, CAROL BERGER

Waiting for the Barbarians: Cavafy and Tahrir Square

CAROL BERGER