Egypt: The Context For Unrest
“In a nuclear age, a space age, an age of expanding minds, they still rule us with the law of the Bedouins’ god and the Koran …Shit!” –That’s a remark of the Syrian writer Haidar Haidar, in “A Banquet for Seaweed.” It’s one of the many gems in this compilation of recent Egyptian history as collected by the New York Review of Books.
