Tag: English
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Taming the Immigrant: Musings of a Writer in Exile
I see no impurity or weakness in fear, unlike courage which I have often found to be synonymous with male folly. In fact, if anything, fear keeps you alert, vigilant, in a state of internal meditation even, one that enables you to gradually build up your psychological defenses. I refer…
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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,…