When Mona Prince opened her Facebook inbox on April 13 and saw the message from a colleague, she thought at first that it was a bad joke. She read an appeal by students of the Suez Canal University, where Prince works as a professor of English. It was the invitation to join a rally — and to demand her expulsion.
"I was shocked when I realized that the call was meant seriously," Prince, 43, said in an interview with Al-Monitor — numerous interrogations and murder threats later. She can no longer pursue her work and will probably have to answer to the court, her professional future uncertain.