http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/02/reading-egypt/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/02/reading-egypt/comment-page-1/#comment-20615 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:24:24 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=5343#comment-20615 Also, Leila Ahmed’s incredible memoir, “A Border Passage: One Woman’s Journey from Cairo to America,” which does such a great job covering the changes from the Nasser era and beyond. And fiction by Ahdaf Soueif, particularly In The Eye of the Sun…

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/02/reading-egypt/comment-page-1/#comment-20590 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:10:24 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=5343#comment-20590 Thanks for the reading list. I’ve been following this story with much interest, because it is both a fascinating example of what it takes to make people finally revolt and because I had a cousin over there. Thank God she was evacuated Tuesday, but there are still millions of people who call Egypt home, and I hope it will become a better place for them.

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