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Category Archives: Egypt

Naguib Mahfouz: a farewell tribute

Trevor Le Gassick | Open Democracy | 1 Sept 2006 The great Cairo novelist illuminated a century’s changes in Egypt and other Arab lands. His loss is also the world’s, … Continue reading

3 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Vale Naguib Mahfouz

Nobel prize winning novelist who brought Arabic fiction to the western world Denys Johnson-Davies | The Guardian | Thursday August 31, 2006 The Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, who has died … Continue reading

31 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Not quite the felling of the Berlin Wall, but …

Gunmen blow a large hole in wall between Egypt and Gaza Strip

25 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Shi’a crescent: myth or reality? By Abigail Fielding-Smith

Open Democracy 28 July 2006 With tensions growing in the middle east, leaders and policymakers have started warning of an increasingly powerful Shi’a crescent, bolstered by Iran. Abigail Fielding-Smith uncovers … Continue reading

4 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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