Category: Articles
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Something to Resist With
Translate into English by: Ahdaf Soueif. published on 1st April at LRB (London Review of Books) On my first day in prison, trying to make me feel better, my fellow inmates listed the advantages of our particular prison, and our particular ward: most of the inmates were senior civil servants, businessmen, judges,…
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A Lesson in the Dangers of Book Burning
Our family has a long history of disposing of books in various ways. As a boy in Egypt, I remember the regular routine when, every so often, my father would open the cupboards and drawers and arrange his books, magazines, and notebooks. Most dear to him were the notebooks which…