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All those theres: Sargon Boulus’s Iraq
4 September 2011: Baghdad via San Francisco, for Youssef Rakha, makes more sense than Baghdad Thanks to a flighty wi-fi connection at the riad where I stayed that time in Marrakesh, I heard Sargon...
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Angelus Novus: A Letter from Hilary Plum
Dear Youssef, A few days after you proposed that I write you this letter, a man was killed, his execution public enough that despite the five thousand miles between us we both could look on. This man,...
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The Barbarians Within Our Minds
Reading the senior journalist Hisham Melhem’s recent obituary of Arab civilization, one is compelled to ask when it was ever alive. Al-Ahram Weekly, 25 September The Nowhere, Cairo 2014. By Youssef...
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Seth Messinger on Alessandro Spina: Bordello Continent, Missione Civilizzatrice
“Marble Arch Built by Italians to Commemorate then victory in Libya”. Photo by Joe Willis. Source: joewillis.co.uk . Seth Messigner reviews The Confines of the Shadow by Alessandro Spina, translated by...
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Tawfik Okasha and the Amazingly Appalling Atrociousness of the Fellahin
Since 25 Jan we have had, in addition to the Islamist and official media, Al Fara’een: a satellite political-commentary channel of such irrational and duplicitous orientation I believe it is worse for...
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