one of the things that I remember worrying about at the time I was writing Coalition was that I might fail to do justice to the monastery at Debra Damo--and that it was incredibly unlikely that Goewin would have been allowed in. However, I did find a few lapses in their strict no-girls-allowed policy, not counting Gudit (Judith), the 10th century non-Christian queen who sacked and burned the place!

I don't know much about modern Ethiopian politics either.